Bug#884914: apt: does not deal well with high request latency web servers

2018-08-29 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 11:02:22AM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > Source: apt > Severity: wishlist > X-Debbugs-Cc: ma...@debian.org > > At work our packages and package lists are served by a web service that > has relatively high time to first byte latency. Once it starts > transmitting the bytes

Bug#884914: apt: does not deal well with high request latency web servers

2018-01-25 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 06:06:28PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > That said, you just went the other way. Not that I liked the cURL https > transport, given that it was fairly stupid^Wstraightforward. But at ^^^ you must be joking…¹ > least it used a

Bug#884914: apt: does not deal well with high request latency web servers

2018-01-14 Thread Philipp Kern
On 01/07/2018 07:49 PM, David Kalnischkies wrote: > The apt team was always against doing this which eventually spawned > stuff like the enormously hacky "apt-fast". The problem we see with this > is that as soon we add this to mainline users will activate such options > even if it makes no

Bug#884914: apt: does not deal well with high request latency web servers

2018-01-07 Thread David Kalnischkies
Hi, On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 11:02:22AM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > An easy workaround (few lines changed) would be to just spawn multiple > transports for a given host target, to make use of multiple connections. The apt team was always against doing this which eventually spawned stuff like the

Bug#884914: apt: does not deal well with high request latency web servers

2018-01-07 Thread Philipp Kern
Hi, On 12/21/2017 11:02 AM, Philipp Kern wrote: > At work our packages and package lists are served by a web service that > has relatively high time to first byte latency. Once it starts > transmitting the bytes are pushed in a fast way but fetching the bytes > in the first place takes a "long"

Bug#884914: apt: does not deal well with high request latency web servers

2017-12-21 Thread Philipp Kern
Source: apt Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: ma...@debian.org At work our packages and package lists are served by a web service that has relatively high time to first byte latency. Once it starts transmitting the bytes are pushed in a fast way but fetching the bytes in the first place takes a