On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 03:46:29 +0100 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <m...@tobias.gr> wrote:
> Hullo, > > On 21/03/17 02:44, dian_ce...@zoho.com wrote: > > Just ran guix pull and guix package -u, and found some of the > > programs download VERY slowly (<100kb/s, usually around 95). I > > asked on #guix and lfam mentioned it was probably a cache miss. > > Do you mean that *substitutes* existed, but were not yet on > mirror.hydra.gnu.org and so were silently proxied from the much slower > hydra.gnu.org? The URL displayed during the download was mirror.hydra.gnu.org. > > Or did Guix fall back to downloading *source* tarballs from some slow > upstream to build locally? It was a binary download, not source. At least, I don't recall anything about compiles at any point (and I'm sure it didn't take long enough to do that; one package was icecat which I'm sure wouldn't have downloaded at 90k/s then compiled in less than 15 minutes (fwiw, according to my build logs firefox takes about 2 hours to build, so unless icecat is magically orders of magnitude faster to build, then I'm sure it was just a download + install, and not download + compile + install)
