[Yum] Feedback Request: yum-plugin-multithread

[Seth Vidal]

On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Michael Schultz wrote:

> Hello again,
> 	I've meshed the two ideas of one queue per repo and a per server max
> number of download threads and a global max number of download threads.
> The conf file now has, three new variables:
> - max_threads (8): the maximum number of download threads active at any
>   instance on your local machine
> - threads_per_server (2): of those max_threads, only this many can be
>   actively downloading from a specific server simultaneously.  In a
>   certain sense, this enables a "one queue per repo."  Though really, you
>   can have,
> - servers_per_repo (4): at most this many servers for a certain repo.
>
> Thus, with the default settings, if you want to just update from 'updates,'
> multithread will select 4 servers from that repo, queue them up, then only
> allow 2 downloads from each server up to the max_threads on a system.
>
> It is also worth noting that I changed the MultiThread helper class a
> little.  Now, there is an add_package() function that takes the remote path
> to download and a local path to save it to.  Once all the packages are
> added, a simple call to fetch_packages() will begin downloading them all.
> (I think this is closed to the urlgrabber functionality.)
>
> Any other comments?  Thanks for what I've got so far!
>

Did you see my comments from before? About adding this functionality 
directly to urlgrabber?

-sv