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

[Philipp Überbacher]

Excerpts from Evangelos Foutras's message of 2010-09-10 12:59:50 +0200:
> 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).

Sage is in community in the meanwhile, and afair the
sage-mathematics-bin package did download a debian or ubuntu package
from somewhere.
-- 
Philipp

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