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

[Ronald van Haren]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Nathan Wayde <kumyco at konnichi.com> wrote:
> On 10/09/10 11:59, Evangelos Foutras wrote:
>>
>> 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).
>>
>
> AUR isn't a binary repository, all it's intended to store are PKGBUILDs
> scripts that aid the PKGBUILD .install files, .desktop files, and other
> small files not including sourcecode.
>

sure it it, that is where the community repo is stored...

Ronald