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Argh. Was just upgrading a Debian machine and was wishing (again) for parallel downloads. apt-fast is a severely limited hack (I couldn't figure out what it a
by CoffeeDregs 7y ago
Argh. Was just upgrading a Debian machine and was wishing (again) for parallel downloads. apt-fast is a severely limited hack (I couldn't figure out what it actually supports). I assumed any significant apt update would include performance/DL improvement. No?
- julian-klode 7y agoNon-parallel downloads from the same server are by design - turning that restriction off would be an easy thing. Server resources are limited, and people should not be cheating their way around bandwidth limits the server has. Put multiple mirrors in a mirrors.list, and then use `mirror+file://path to mirror list` instead of the http source in sources.list so that apt downloads from all these mirrors in parallel. Be aware that high parallelisation of downloads may reduce your throughput for small number of things to fetch. There also should be no latency need - APT keeps the number of requests it has sent to the server at 10, so there should be no latency overhead. Yes I know, this does not work for Google because their latency is crazy high, but their speed is super high too.