On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 11:34:32AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 11:12 AM Matthew Miller <mattdm@fedoraproject.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Currently this defaults to 3. I have seen people online suggesting that
> > they
> > get better performance setting it to 6 (or higher).
> >
> > As mirror admins in 2022, do you care? Do you have a preference for our
> > default? Note that I'm 87% sure that GNOME Software does not do parallel
> > downloads so this would primarily affect server/cloud use cases (the later
> > of which should hit cloud-provider mirrors) and enthusiast usage.

As a mirror admin, I do not care.

> I'm pretty sure that the metalinks also include max parallel connections
> per mirror information, as we set when we configured our mirrors. Raising

MirrorManager offers a way to specify max parallel connections, but that
is not used in the metalink at all. The existing value in the metalink
is hard-coded to 1. So that does also not really help. At this point
there is no support from the MirrorManager side.