Re: Lilypond build: version

[David Kastrup]

"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Kastrup" <address@hidden>
> To: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>
> Cc: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2015 11:10 AM
> Subject: Re: Lilypond build: version
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>> Phil Holmes <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> I completed a full GUB build of lilypond yesterday (it took 5 hours on my
>>> superfast machine).
>>
>> Sounds about par for the course.
>
> When it's running right, it should be about an hour, so I hope this is
> just a start-up with lots of changes time.
>
>
>> Good luck and success finding the culprit for the upload problem!
>
> History repeating itself:
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2012-08/msg00717.html
>
> Upload is now proceeding.  Takes about 5 hours and slows internet
> access for the house to a crawl :-(

Try finding a way to throttle the upload rate at about 90% of your
upload capacity (some environment variables for the upload program
perhaps?  Or some parameters one can set in the VM or VM kernel?).
"Internet access" is almost exclusively download capacity, so the main
reason the "internet access for the house" is at a crawl is that the
upload-direction parts of the communication required for downloading
take too long to get through even though they take up very little
bandwidth.

If you manage to throttle the upload rate just a bit, the upload will
not take much longer while the "internet access for the house" will
become unstuck for typical use cases.

-- 
David Kastrup