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Re: Download speeds for nightly builds seem a bit slow to a lot of people over at the forum

 

https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-winbuilder/issues/53#issuecomment-337167911

tir. 12. mar. 2019 11.07 skrev Russell Oliver <roliver8143@xxxxxxxxx>:

> To cut down the download size, can there be a nightly package built
> that doesn't contain the library, module and 3d files? just enough to
> overwrite the program files.
>
>
> Regards
> Russell Oliver
>
>
>
> On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 at 06:00, Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > AFAI CERN has private cluster using Ceph that has an S3 api but its not
> AWS. It's also not as simple as creating a torrent because there still
> needs to be a primary seed server.
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 6:23 PM Andrew Lutsenko <anlutsenko@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I think torrents are the best solution.
> >> Even when servers function normally on each release there is a stampede
> to download new binary and things slow down to a crawl. I don't know if
> moving to CERN servers (AWS servers?) will help but torrents certainly
> would.
> >>
> >> It's as simple as creating a torrent with openbittorrent.com tracker
> or even just a magnet link relying on DHT.
> >> I can help script this if needed.
> >>
> >> On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 10:32 AM Marco Ciampa <ciampix@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 01:22:39PM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> >>> > Thanks.  If we are having issues with the CERN download speeds
> (although
> >>> > it is not entirely evident that is the issue) it would be good to
> have
> >>> > alternate mirrors for users to try if they are having issues with the
> >>> > main download server.
> >>>
> >>> Why not adding torrent seeds like done for the Ubuntu iso images or
> >>> Libreoffice binary files? We must have a torrent tracker somewhere and
> >>> that should offload servers and should solve the peak download problems
> >>> if any...
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Marco Ciampa
> >>>
> >>> I know a joke about UDP, but you might not get it.
> >>>
> >>> ------------------------
> >>>
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> >>>  FSFE fellow #364
> >>>
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> >>>
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