* Tollef Fog Heen <tfh...@err.no> [151207 00:17]: > ]] David Kalnischkies > > > [And before someone complains about PDiff being slow in apt based on > > some years old experience: The PDiff handling was changed nearly two > > years ago… – and apt-file was using PDiffs before already, so no real > > change there] > > Does this mean apt now will only download a single file, regardless of > whether it's grabbing the updates a pdiff or full packages file? In the > past, the problem for me has been that you end up being latency-bound, > rather than bandwidth-bound.
I set Acquire::Pdiffs::FileLimit "3"; and have been much happier. Why this (or something near this) wasn't the default from the start, I don't know. The current default is an extremely poor choice. Perhaps someone should file a bug (serverity critical :-P) to get the default changed. ...Marvin
