Right now I get around 50 kbps on archive.mariadb.org.  This means that a complete server package (with tests etc.) could take ~10 hours to download. Or even 4 days with the 6 kbps that Guillaume experiences (all roughly calculated numbers).

I understand the probems with hosting/storage (incl. costs) and mirrors refusing to host TB's of archived/historical data. But I don't understand what it has to do with bandwidth (I assume that the reduced bandwidth is not because of a lot of simultaneous downloads happening).

-- Peter

On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 4:19 PM, Sergei Golubchik <serg@mariadb.org> wrote:

Hi, Guillaume!

On Nov 12, Guillaume Lefranc wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Download speeds on archive.mariadb.org have reached an abysmal level -
> 6kb/s today. Honestly, what is the foundation waiting for to solve
> this issue that has been lasting for years? I am ready to donate
> server space and bandwidth myself if needed.

It's an archive of historical versions, it's big, not suposed to be used
often and it's intentionally bandwidth limited (as far as I can see in
apache2.conf).

It has a miror, which is much faster (at least, for me, I've just
tried), why wouldn't you use that?

There's only one mirror, because the archive is big (1.2T as of today) -
we've had to create archive.mariadb.org specifically because our normal
mirrors grew up too large and mirror hosters asked us to reduce the size
somewhat.

Regards,
Sergei
Chief Architect MariaDB
and security@mariadb.org

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