Bug#501747: apt-cacher: clients take excessive time to download files

2008-10-18 Thread Mark Hindley
I think I have tracked this down. Could you try this patch for /usr/share/apt-cacher/apt-cacher (against 1.6.6.) and let me know. Mark diff --git a/apt-cacher b/apt-cacher index 1fb7ab7..765b240 100755 --- a/apt-cacher +++ b/apt-cacher @@ -1211,7 +1211,7 @@ sub connect_curlm {

Bug#501747: apt-cacher: clients take excessive time to download files

2008-10-18 Thread Mark Hindley
Package: apt-cacher tag 501747 pending thanks On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 02:27:11PM +0200, Guntsche Michael wrote: On Oct 18, 2008, at 12:27, Mark Hindley wrote: I think I have tracked this down. Could you try this patch for /usr/share/apt-cacher/apt-cacher (against 1.6.6.) and let me know.

Bug#501747: apt-cacher: clients take excessive time to download files

2008-10-16 Thread Michael Guntsche
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:58:04 +0100, Mark Hindley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am afraid I can't reproduce this behaviour (admittedly I have the apt-cacher version 1.6.6 which is still to be uploaded. If you want to try it and see if it is any better you can get it from

Bug#501747: apt-cacher: clients take excessive time to download files

2008-10-16 Thread Mark Hindley
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:26:03AM +0200, Michael Guntsche wrote: I do not see anything fishy here but i KNOW that a while back I had the full download speed (back then around 330K). So I do not understand what's happening here. Thanks. It basically looks fine, appart from the frequent read

Bug#501747: apt-cacher: clients take excessive time to download files

2008-10-16 Thread Mark Hindley
Could you apply this patch to /usr/share/apt-cacher/apt-cacher and see if it makes any difference? Mark diff --git a/apt-cacher b/apt-cacher index 1fb7ab7..9d2e7b2 100755 --- a/apt-cacher +++ b/apt-cacher @@ -1332,7 +1332,7 @@ sub libcurl { } elsif ($pkfdref) {

Bug#501747: apt-cacher: clients take excessive time to download files

2008-10-16 Thread Mark Hindley
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 01:19:40PM +0200, Michael Guntsche wrote: On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:04:07 +0100, Mark Hindley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had thought your problem was with 1.6.4. The OP of ths bug identifies 1.6.4 as problematic. Is it fine for you? 1.6.4 is fine for me. Sorry for

Bug#501747: apt-cacher: clients take excessive time to download files

2008-10-16 Thread Mark Hindley
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 12:53:32PM +0200, Michael Guntsche wrote: On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:28:54 +0100, Mark Hindley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you know which version gave you decent speed? Hah, that was easier than I expected. 1.6.4 gives me decent performance, I am not up to my

Bug#501747: apt-cacher: clients take excessive time to download files

2008-10-15 Thread Guntsche Michael
Hi, I seem to have a similar problem. In my case apt-get update works rather fast. If I then download a package via apt-get install I get a download rate of 167K if I got directly to the same server (removing the proxy entries in sources.list) I get around 560K of download. This started

Bug#501747: apt-cacher: clients take excessive time to download files

2008-10-15 Thread Mark Hindley
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 09:22:11PM +0200, Guntsche Michael wrote: Hi, I seem to have a similar problem. In my case apt-get update works rather fast. If I then download a package via apt-get install I get a download rate of 167K if I got directly to the same server (removing the proxy

Bug#501747: apt-cacher: clients take excessive time to download files

2008-10-13 Thread Mark Hindley
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:53:25AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: package apt-cacher found 501747 1.6.4 thanks On 12-Oct-2008, Mark Hindley wrote: Can you provide me with your apt-cacher version = $ aptitude show apt-cacher | grep '^Version:' Version: 1.6.4 = which mode are you

Bug#501747: apt-cacher: clients take excessive time to download files

2008-10-13 Thread Ben Finney
On 13-Oct-2008, Mark Hindley wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:53:25AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: I don't know exactly which configuration setting determines that, so here are all the configuration settings for ???apt-cacher???: Thanks. What does /etc/default/apt-cacher contain? = $

Bug#501747: apt-cacher: clients take excessive time to download files

2008-10-13 Thread Mark Hindley
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 06:46:07PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: I wasn't aware that ???apt-cacher??? works as an HTTP proxy, I'd love to know how to use it that way! I thought one needs to modify the requested URLs in ???sources.list??? directly. Yes, you could leave sources.list unchanged and

Bug#501747: apt-cacher: clients take excessive time to download files

2008-10-12 Thread Ben Finney
package apt-cacher found 501747 1.6.4 thanks On 12-Oct-2008, Mark Hindley wrote: Can you provide me with your apt-cacher version = $ aptitude show apt-cacher | grep '^Version:' Version: 1.6.4 = which mode are you using (daemon, inetd or cgi) I don't know exactly which configuration