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.
I'm pretty sure that the metalinks also include max parallel connections per mirror information, as we set when we configured our mirrors. Raising the client side number of connections should just mean more mirrors get used, right?
If that's the case, I don't see a problem with it.
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Neal GompaSenior DevOps Engineer
Datto, Inc.