Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Improvement suggestion for emerge: Not using a new connection for every file

2007-02-24 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Beginner wrote: Hi, I recommend not to use wget and not to reconnect to the server for every single packet, but to hold the connection therefore spare traffic and download more fast. Uhh, what exactly are you talking about? There is very little overhead to reconnecting to a server to

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Improvement suggestion for emerge: Not using a new connection for every file

2007-02-24 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 10:00:29PM +0100, Beginner wrote: I recommend not to use wget and not to reconnect to the server for every single packet, but to hold the connection therefore spare traffic and download more fast. If you are doing lots of downloads, use 'emerge -pvf FOO' and feed each

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Improvement suggestion for emerge: Not using a new connection for every file

2007-02-24 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 05:55:47PM -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote: On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 10:00:29PM +0100, Beginner wrote: I recommend not to use wget and not to reconnect to the server for every single packet, but to hold the connection therefore spare traffic and download more fast. If