Really slow distfiles.macports.org

[Ryan Schmidt]

FYI, same here, from multiple locations in Austin, TX. In this test, speeds were fluctuating between 4K/sec and 22K/sec.


$ curl -O http://distfiles.macports.org/gcc47/gcc-4.7-20120225.tar.bz2
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0 74.8M    0  409k    0     0   9628      0  2:15:46  0:00:43  2:15:03 12421^C


Much faster from Munich, Germany:


$ curl -O http://distfiles.macports.org/gcc47/gcc-4.7-20120225.tar.bz2
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  1 74.8M    1 1273k    0     0   192k      0  0:06:37  0:00:06  0:06:31  251k^C




On Mar 14, 2012, at 15:22, William Siegrist wrote:

> Thanks for testing... Our network provider is looking into it. No ETA on a fix yet. 
> 
> -Bill
> 
> 
> 
> On Mar 14, 2012, at 10:33 AM, Daniel J. Luke <dluke at geeklair.net> wrote:
> 
>> still slow here:
>> 
>> --->  Attempting to fetch openssl-1.0.0h.tar.gz from http://distfiles.macports.org/openssl
>> % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
>>                                Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
>> 2 3953k    2  101k    0     0   3496      0  0:19:17  0:00:29  0:18:48  6134
>> 
>> 
>> On Mar 14, 2012, at 12:59 PM, William Siegrist wrote:
>>> We could not find any obvious problems with the server, so the problem may be with our ISP. The distfiles server has been rebooted though, did that help? If not, I'll raise the issue with our provider. 
>>> 
>>> On Mar 14, 2012, at 9:49 AM, Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I'm in Southern California with a 25 Mbit  FiOS connection.
>>>> 
>>>> On Mar 14, 2012, at 8:12 AM, William Siegrist <wsiegrist at apple.com> wrote:
>>>>> Blair, we're looking into the problem. Are you located outside of the US? 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Is anyone else having slow download problems?
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Mar 13, 2012, at 11:15 PM, Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Here I got 4 K/sec download and openssl was so slow I manually downloaded it from openssl.org:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> --->  Fetching py27-distribute
>>>>>> --->  distribute-0.6.25.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/py-distribute
>>>>>> --->  Attempting to fetch distribute-0.6.25.tar.gz from http://distfiles.macports.org/py-distribute
>>>>>> % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
>>>>>>                            Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
>>>>>> 100  614k  100  614k    0     0   4503      0  0:02:19  0:02:19 --:--:--  4561