Re: apt and multiple connections

2000-09-06 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 6 Sep 2000, Andrew J Cosgriff wrote: > On a similar (but kinda opposite) note, are there any plans to add > some bandwidth-limiting functionality to apt/apt-get ? No. It isn't very effective to try and do that from an application - use the services in the linux kernel if you really need it...

Re: apt and multiple connections

2000-09-06 Thread Andrew J Cosgriff
Jason Gunthorpe wrote : > On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Russell Coker wrote: > > > I would like to transfer several files at a time to enable usable throughput > > through slow web caches. Is there any way this can be done? If not can > > this > > feature be added? > > If I recall it isn't too hard, bu

Re: apt and multiple connections

2000-09-05 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Russell Coker wrote: > I would like to transfer several files at a time to enable usable throughput > through slow web caches. Is there any way this can be done? If not can this > feature be added? If I recall it isn't too hard, but it isn't there specificly to prevent yaho

apt and multiple connections

2000-09-04 Thread Russell Coker
It appears from the apt documentation that it will only ever transfer a maximum of one file per web-server by design (the documentation on Queue-Mode in apt.conf(5) says that it will transfer one file per-host or one per URI type). I would like to transfer several files at a time to enable usable