[Yum] [UG] parallelizing downloading

[Jim Wildman]

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Robert G. Brown wrote:

> It might be good to first determine the "advantage" of parallel
> downloads and the number of systems that would benefit.  Presumably,
> parallel downloads are "good" because they make things run a bit faster
> in cases where one is bandwidth-limited at the server side (so your
> local NIC is spending time idle that could be invested on other
> connections).

<snip>

> I personally think that it isn't terribly unreasonable to EXPECT yum to
> run more slowly and inconveniently on resource-starved older systems.
> Everything else does too, after all -- this is why we call them
> "resource-starved older systems".  Rewriting a complex tool to be even
> more complex to provide a small marginal benefit for those systems seems
> like a poor use of scarce developer time.
> 
>      rgb
> 

Hear, hear.  mod +<asmuchasIcan>.

I truly appreciate Seth's 'stubbornness' in the area of
'creepingfeaturitis'.  I think your analysis of how to find new 
features (lots of people doing an 'incremental' extension) is excellent.

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