[aur-general] Why is aur.archlinux.org so slow? :(

[Evangelos Foutras]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Philipp Überbacher
<hollunder at lavabit.com> wrote:
> Excerpts from Sven-Hendrik Haase's message of 2010-09-10 01:27:39 +0200:
>>  Whenever I try uploading a reasonably large package to
>> aur.archlinux.org, my average speed is around 500KB/s. This appears to
>> be an artificial limitation since a server would have at least
>> 10/10MBits uplink. I therefore request the speed limit to be disabled in
>> order to be able to upload large packages with all available bandwidth
>> to increase productivity.
>>
>> Or is there a reason for the limit?
>>
>> -- Sven-Hendrik
>
> Maybe I misunderstand something here, but my average upload to AUR is
> 600 Bytes, so the speed really doesn't matter. What do you upload there?
> --
> Philipp
>
> --
> "Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu
> und alle Fragen offen." Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan

Binary packages like sage-mathematics (over a GiB for both architectures).