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[Peter Laursen <peter_laursen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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_laursen@xxxxxxxxxx>
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 <serg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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 security@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>
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