Hi,
I was conducting some tests to make sure the future gna.org
location has a good (better ;-) connectivity. And I discovered that
you will have a better transfert rate with rsync on download.gna.org
if you *dont* use compression.
rsync without compression will provide ~8 mega byte per second
without blinking. rsync with compression drops down to ~2 mega byte
per second.
This is because rsync is run with *low* nice priority. The
rationale is understandable : web pages must answer quickly, rsync and
other batch transfert can take longer.
I understand the rationale although it bugs me at times (like
this morning a rsync -n of 10 000 files took around 2 minutes
to complete).
If and when services are moved to a new machine from
lisa.gna.org, I suggest separating the web (project homepages) from
the rest. Project home pages are the one requiring the low priority
and therefore (unless I'm mistaken) batch processes can be given
normal priority and not stale for (almost) no reason.
Cheers,
--
Loic Dachary, 12 bd Magenta, 75010 Paris. Tel: 33 8 71 18 43 38
http://www.fsffrance.org/ http://www.dachary.org/loic/gpg.txt
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