On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 11:34:32AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 11:12 AM Matthew Miller mattdm@fedoraproject.org wrote:
Currently this defaults to 3. I have seen people online suggesting that they get better performance setting it to 6 (or higher).
As mirror admins in 2022, do you care? Do you have a preference for our default? Note that I'm 87% sure that GNOME Software does not do parallel downloads so this would primarily affect server/cloud use cases (the later of which should hit cloud-provider mirrors) and enthusiast usage.
As a mirror admin, I do not care.
I'm pretty sure that the metalinks also include max parallel connections per mirror information, as we set when we configured our mirrors. Raising
MirrorManager offers a way to specify max parallel connections, but that is not used in the metalink at all. The existing value in the metalink is hard-coded to 1. So that does also not really help. At this point there is no support from the MirrorManager side.
Adrian