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natostanco

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Registered: 2008-01-07

Posts: 126

Downloading package with pacman, how many threads?

When I download packages with pacman it start at slow speed and then goes up,  this produces some kind of delay between downloads, especially for lots of small packages. I know this can feel like not a big problem, but you know, comparing with yum centos it seems kinda slow, seems like pacman download packages 1 thread at a time while yum it is like multi threaded because every package is downloaded consequentially without speed loss. Is there somekind of tweak for this?

Last edited by natostanco (2012-04-28 10:16:13)

MOPSTER

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From: Aruba

Registered: 2012-03-26

Posts: 15

Re: Downloading package with pacman, how many threads?

There's a nice entry in the wiki about this, although I'd use Xyne's pm2ml instead of powerpill-light.  https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Im … oad_Speeds http://xyne.archlinux.ca/projects/pm2ml/