Hello,

We moved the download from Inria to OVH because Inria was unreliable. (They found some very arcane issue with the backbone
infrastructure some month later after constantly telling us that we were wrong���)

Now the OVH server offer is not good enough, they seem to throttle us.

We are in the process of getting better infrastructure, again��� 

one problem is always that there is just no time to do all these things so fast as they should be done���

Marcus

On 13 Mar 2019, at 12:30, Esteban Maringolo <emaringolo@gmail.com> wrote:

More to this issue that might affect only those living below the latitude 38�� S...

I was having download interruptions when using the launcher to fetch templates, so I changed the ZnNetworkUtils defaultSocketStreamTimeout to 120 (default is 30) and in the last two templates I downloaded I had no issues, it was slow, but at least without interruptions. Maybe the download manager I mentioned in the previous email had a highter timeout as well.

Given that the INRIA file server hasn't the fastest upload link, I think that rising the timeout from 30 to something at least the double is a reasonable workaround.

Regards,

Esteban A. Maringolo


El vie., 1 feb. 2019 a las 14:48, Esteban Maringolo (<emaringolo@gmail.com>) escribi��:
I'm bumping this, just in case it helps somebody.

I tried to download the latest Pharo Launcher 1.6, and I had the same issues as the ones stated in this thread (slow download, timeouts, etc.).

But I downloaded it with a download manager [1], and by means of ten simultaneous connections the download speed was fast enough as to download the 50 MB in a minute or so.

So I don't know if there is a restriction from the file server or somewhere in the way out, but you can work around it by means of a Download Manager.

Regards!


Esteban A. Maringolo


El mi��., 3 oct. 2018 a las 5:04, Marcus Denker (<marcus.denker@inria.fr>) escribi��:
Ok, so the upgrade of the server contract did not help.

There is a CDN included, I will try to enable that next (but CDNs cache by name, so we need to make sure we invalidate the cache���)

I will do a calculation what S3 would cost, too.

Marcus

On 3 Oct 2018, at 00:59, Esteban Maringolo <emaringolo@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm reviving this because I can't finish the download of an image using the latest Pharo launcher.

I'm timeout errors when attempting to download it. Tried 5 times at different intervals.


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Any idea of what could be happening?

Esteban A. Maringolo


El mar., 18 sept. 2018 a las 21:03, Esteban Maringolo (<emaringolo@gmail.com>) escribi��:
Is there a reason why the latest version of the builds linked from the website are not hosted in some CDN, Amazon S3 or similar?

Maybe in Europe the speed is fast, but where I am (Argentina) it is really slow, the screenshot shows 3.5KB/s, it averages 10KB/s, with peaks of 40KB/s.

This is an pitiful boarding experience, that will make many cancel it even before getting to open the downloaded launcher.

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The screenshot shows that is not a problem with my home connection, which isn't the fastest but is "normal" for my use cases.

Regards,

Esteban A. Maringolo

ps: When I finished writing this email, this was the progress...
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