[BUG] Updates slow down dramatically after 5501
Doug Way
dway at riskmetrics.com
Sat Nov 22 04:48:01 UTC 2003
On Friday, November 21, 2003, at 07:13 PM, Doug Way wrote:
> Well, it turns out you are right about the server, mostly. For some
> reason, the European update server is fast for me too, but the
> "non-European" server (update.squeakfoundation.org, which Cees
> maintains and may actually be based in Europe) consistently slows way
> down after 5501. (I've tried it four times now.) *All* of the
> post-5501 updates take exactly 20 seconds (or slightly more if they're
> big) to download. Very odd. I'm not sure what would be different
> between the two servers.
>
> Hmmm, looking at the debugger right now, I notice the list of
> (non-European) update servers still includes uiuc (which hasn't worked
> in a long time) in addition to update.squeakfoundation.org. Perhaps
> after 5501 it is trying uiuc first for some reason and timing out. I
> can play with this more tonight by removing uiuc from the servers list
> to see if that helps.
>
> (Also, I'm using the slightly old 3.5.1 (Jun 21 2003) Windows VM, on
> Windows XP. I'll try from home on Mac OS X to see if there's any
> difference.)
Hm, trying on OS X, the updates on the non-European server are nice &
fast. I'll test again on Windows later. If anyone else happens to
notice that updates (through 5501) on the non-European server are very
slow on Windows, please let me know.
- Doug
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