Core BrainStorm

[Joe Orton]

On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 04:41:48PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> (c) if it isn't already, the installer and yum should use HTTP/1.1 pipelining
> to avoid tons of DNS lookups and HTTP connections.  This was a severe problem
> a year ago, when I had a slow DNS server.  Need to re-test to see if its a
> problem now.  Using >1 HTTP connections would also be nice.

Pipelining does not avoid DNS lookups or making HTTP connections, it 
avoids latency.  But it breaks with many proxies (particularly 
transparent proxies), so is generally not something you want to turn on 
by default, especially in something as critical as the installer.

joe