[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Order downloads by descending max_size

[Allan McRae]

On 23/8/21 4:32 am, Gavin Troy wrote:
> Using the same methodology (although with parallel=7):
> 
> 16	17	1.06
> 8	8	1.00
> 78	78	1.00
> 6	5	0.83
> 23	23	1.00
> 4	4	1.00
> 17	16	0.94
> 30	30	1.00
> 8	8	1.00
> 8	8	1.00
> 		1.00 avg
> 
> So with my connection there's no significant gain or loss. Since this data was uninteresting I tried again with a large packet delay.
> # tc qdisc add dev wlan0 root netem delay 500ms
> 
> 32	27	0.84
> 194	184	0.95
> 37	39	1.05
> 184	178	0.97
> 42	37	0.88
> 257	220	0.86
> 92	62	0.67
> 65	44	0.68
> 77	60	0.78
> 54	51	0.94
> 		0.87 avg

Thanks.  My takeaway here is there is no drawback to adding this patch,
only a potential (average) gain for some people.  So I am accepting this
patch.

Allan