download speed

[Mikus Grinbergs]

On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 07:22:09 -0700 linux_learner <linux.learner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> All you did was change the time out.
>
> The network was less congested.

Then let me repeat my original question - for which I have not
received suggestions:

  I'm experiencing situations where 'smart' receives a "block" of
  data (and shows the instantaneous transfer rate as, say, 5 KB/sec).
  Then (presumably because further "blocks" are experiencing errors)
  the displayed transfer rate counts down, sometimes even reaching
  'Stalled'.  *Sometimes* another good block is received, and the
  count-down of the displayed rate begins anew.  But sooner or later,
  the transfer of a particular package (or repository index file)
  counts down to 'Stalled' and remains there (i.e., there seems to
  be *no* further data transfer taking place for that particular
  package/file).  When all ongoing transfers have gone to this
  'permanently Stalled' state, the download process itself times out.


  I would like the smart "apply/commit" process to keep going - i.e.,
  to NOT enter into these __permanently__ 'Stalled' states.

  Is there a configuration value or specifiable parameter that I
  can set, to have 'smart' KEEP GOING with a data transfer despite
  the presence of transmission errors -- instead of permanently
  'Stalling' that data transfer ?


mikus


-------- original message --------
>
> On 9/11/06, Mikus Grinbergs <mikus at bga.com> wrote:
> > With my slow dial-up line, I  was experiencing 'smart' stalls/timeouts
> > while downloading packages.
> >
> > On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 23:29:43 -0500 mikus at bga.com wrote:
> > > Is there some sort of parameter which I can set to tell smart to
> > > "keep going" with a download, instead of stalling out and then
> > > ending its download operation ?
> >
> > Don't know if today the network is less congested, or if the change I
> > made to the 'smart' configuration parameters helped, but today a
> > similar download is keeping on going.  My change:
> >
> >  smart config --set socket-timeout=300