On Jun 6, 2022, at 08:54, Christopher Nielsen wrote: > > Over the past few months, I’ve found that downloads from > ‘packages.macports.org’ and ‘distfiles.macports.org’ are consistently > throttled at 1 megabyte/second. And while that isn’t an issue for smaller > payloads, it significantly impacts binary installation/update times for > larger ports like Rust, the various LLVM ports, etc: The vast majority of > time is spent waiting for the download to occur, with the installation > occurring in a few seconds. > > Cancelling the download via Ctrl-C results in the next mirror being selected > - which for me, is generally ‘ywg.ca.packages.macports.org’ - resulting in a > fast non-throttled download. > > So the $100,000 question is: Are our Fastly-based mirrors intentionally > throttled at 1 megabyte/second? > > If that’s intentional - particularly to reduce hosting costs - then no > worries. But just figured I’d ask, in case that’s not supposed to be > occurring.
Yes, it has always been that slow for me as well, which is part of the reason why I had not formally announced the fact that we are using this CDN. I need to ask them if there is some mistake in our configuration that is causing this.
