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large publicly accessible HTTP archive?

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Bryan Larsen <bryan@larsen.st>
Date
Oct 31, 2008, 17:07 UTC
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Hello,
I'm one of the maintainers of MacPorts git port.

A long time ago, we had problems pulling extremely large archives over HTTP on PowerPC machines. By large, I mean on the order of 500 megabytes: I was testing using an embedded Linux distribution.

We "fixed" the problem by turning off CURL_MULTI and ignored the problem. Yes, bad form, I know.

Our problems were against curl 7.16.2.

However, in recent git's, CURL_MULTI is required to do an HTTP push, so we've had users complaining.

Curl is up to 7.19.0, they may have fixed our problem. Unfortunately, the distribution I used for testing is gone now. Putting up a local archive doesn't exhibit the problem either.

Is anybody aware of a very large HTTP accessible repository that wouldn't mind me doing a few test pulls from? By large, I mean >500 megabytes of network traffic for a single pull.

thanks, Bryan

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  1. Bryan LarsenOct 31, 2008
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