How can we speed up rpm downloads?

[Justin Conover]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Bryn M. Reeves <bmr at redhat.com> wrote:

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> cornel panceac wrote:
> >> 2008/6/13 Jerry Amundson <jamundso at gmail.com <mailto:jamundso at gmail.com
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> >>     Not necessarily. Even at high speed, I don't want dozens of rpm
> >>     downloads taking all the bandwidth. I have mailgroups to read!
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> >>     jerry
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> > what if you download only one rpm per repo?
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> Doesn't really help if you're bandwidth constrained. Parallel downloads
> from different repos will still end up crushing your network connection.
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> Parallel downloading is good for some users but it probably shouldn't be
> the default.
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> Regards,
> Bryn.
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>
So a yum-paralllel-download would be a good package to have ;)
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