> On 19 Jan 2016, at 03:57, Erling Westenvik <erling.westen...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 01:26:15AM -0600, Luke Small wrote: >> then it changes all the parsed http and ftp mirrors into http and ftp >> downloads and changes them to non redundant http mirrors (it has to to >> easily call ftp on it). It takes them and downloads SHA256 from the >> mirrors and the parent times how long it takes. If it takes too long >> it kills the ftp call and goes on to the next one. Then it sorts the >> results and puts the winner in /etc/pkg.conf > > So the program basically makes several network connections to > potentially some 120 servers all across the world and the "winner" is > calculated based on the "speed" it took downloading a 1.9K text file > from each of them?
Which isn't even a big enough transfer to get TCP out of slow start. Michael
