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> We also download over four parallel connections where possible. I hope you can turn that off. It fragments the file and puts unnecessary load on the server.
by Meneth 2mo ago
> We also download over four parallel connections where possible.
I hope you can turn that off. It fragments the file and puts unnecessary load on the server.
- malfist 2mo agoDisk fragmentation isn't a thing for ssd's
- drdexebtjl 2mo agoIt's still a thing. https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast24/presentation/jun https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast24/presentation/jun
- ronsor 2mo ago> unnecessary load In some situations it's the only way to get a decent download speed.
- rzzzt 2mo agoYou never used a download manager like DownThemAll or GetBot back in the day? As far as fragmentation goes, I think both Firefox and Chrome derivatives figure out the final file size in advance, pre-allocate a temporary file that long and put data in it as it arrives. Completing the download is a rename operation or a no-op.
- ChickeNES 2mo agoGetRight was a fucking lifesaver when I was stuck on a 28.8k dial up connection that loved to drop at the worst possible time.
- lproven 2mo agoI haven't thought of that name in decades, but you're right, it really was. :-) GetRight, then DownThemAll, and now, Multithreaded Download Manager: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/multithreaded-download-manager/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/multithreaded...
- cosmic_cheese 2mo agoSpeed Download on early OS X releases was a lifesaver back when I was still on 56k dialup. Its multiplexing was the only way I could get decent speeds half the time (browsers would often drift down to single digits) and being able to resume when connections were dropped (at least when servers supported it).