Re: apt-caher or approx?

On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 06:56:48PM +0000, Sylvain Le Gall wrote:
>
> I am using approx for a at least one year now. I used apt-proxy before.
> Approx is fast and simple. There is almost no configuration (just add
> the repository you want to use) and change the sources.list of your
> host. Concerning speed, i move from apt-proxy which can achieve 1MBps
> to approx (2-4MBps).
>

What is the basis for your speed measurements on apt-proxy? I've used for quite a while now. It regularly achieves line speed (T1 for remote repos; 100 Mbps for repos on the same LAN) for packages it must fetch and disk speed limits for packages it has already chached.

Regards,

-Roberto

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