On Jan 3, 2008, at 5:59 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > Some good news for package maintainers with many sub-packages: > > Plague used to sleep at least 20 seconds for each (!) file it had to > download from a builder. Even downloading the several small log > files used > to take at least 20 seconds *each*. > > Reading and debugging the code, I found the source of the problem and > taught the build server to sleep less when files are being downloaded. > Interestingly, the speedup is noticeable even for tiny build-jobs, > e.g. > > revisor down from 7m to 4m > nagios down from 6m to 4m > > but it will be incredible for build-jobs with a larger number of pkgs > (e.g. try moodle or nagios-plugins which are in EPEL already). That > means, such packagers get the build-results and the mail notification > much faster. > Michael, that's very cool. This has always been something that bugged me when using plague, but I never got around to figuring out why the "downloading" code was so slow, even locally. Would you mind posting a patch for plague with your changes?

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