In my post kbps = kilo *BIT* per second. Maybe Guillaume means kilo *BYTE* per seocnd? Then we are not far from each others (but in my world it is common practice to use BIT for network transfer and BYTE for storage).
- Peter On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 4:36 PM, Peter Laursen <peter_laur...@webyog.com> wrote: > Right now I get around 50 kbps on archive.mariadb.org. This means that a > complete server package (with tests etc.) could take ~10 hours to download. > Or even 4 days with the 6 kbps that Guillaume experiences (all roughly > calculated numbers). > > I understand the probems with hosting/storage (incl. costs) and mirrors > refusing to host TB's of archived/historical data. But I don't understand > what it has to do with bandwidth (I assume that the reduced bandwidth is > not because of a lot of simultaneous downloads happening). > > > -- Peter > > On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 4:19 PM, Sergei Golubchik <s...@mariadb.org> > wrote: > >> Hi, Guillaume! >> >> On Nov 12, Guillaume Lefranc wrote: >> > Hi everyone, >> > >> > Download speeds on archive.mariadb.org have reached an abysmal level - >> > 6kb/s today. Honestly, what is the foundation waiting for to solve >> > this issue that has been lasting for years? I am ready to donate >> > server space and bandwidth myself if needed. >> >> It's an archive of historical versions, it's big, not suposed to be used >> often and it's intentionally bandwidth limited (as far as I can see in >> apache2.conf). >> >> It has a miror, which is much faster (at least, for me, I've just >> tried), why wouldn't you use that? >> >> There's only one mirror, because the archive is big (1.2T as of today) - >> we've had to create archive.mariadb.org specifically because our normal >> mirrors grew up too large and mirror hosters asked us to reduce the size >> somewhat. >> >> Regards, >> Sergei >> Chief Architect MariaDB >> and secur...@mariadb.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss >> Post to : maria-discuss@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > >
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