<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jim Fulton</b> <<a href="mailto:jim@zope.com">jim@zope.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br>On Jul 23, 2007, at 2:58 PM, Benji York wrote:<br><br>> Martin v. Löwis wrote:<br>>> And where somewhat slower could be "practically not noticable".<br>><br>> Perhaps it /could/ be, but isn't currently. For example, updating
<br>> one piece of software I have with almost 150 dependencies takes 45<br>> seconds with ppix, 4:45 without. I plan to do similar timings with<br>> the "simple" PyPI interface when I get a chance and report the
<br>> results here.<br><br>I suspect that this has more to do with network distance than with<br>server speed.</blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>That is an interesting point. It is amazing how many directory type things get slammed, but the problem is really latency...such as a slow DNS lookup. I wonder how much quicker an easy_install would be will local DNS lookups,package names, etc.
</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I had a problem with a LDAP server I setup that was really tricky to figure out until I wrote some scripts that ran continuously getting stats, and I realized that a DNS server would hang occasionally and it would grind everything to a halt. People kept telling me they would have an occasional 'ls -l' that would hang for 20 seconds. Caching DNS servers fixed it.
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