Re: updating list of substitutes

[Pjotr Prins]

Hi Ludo,

Hydra needs to get kicked ;). Download substitutes is slow. Too slow. 

How much would it cost to get some decent hardware for the substitute
server? Maybe we can do a dedicated round of funding on this list and
go round with a cap at FOSDEM? I am happy to put in $100 if it solves
the issue. Is there no one here who can provide a decent server?

Pj.

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 04:35:45PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:
> 
> > Still, my impression (also from using substitutes) is that _access_ to hydra
> > is slow;
> 
> Yes.  If you haven’t tried yet, compare it with the speed at which ‘guix
> publish’ serves those .narinfo URLs on a “real” machine; it’s an order
> of magnitude faster, even though hydra.gnu.org has nginx running in the
> front and serving things from the cache.
> 
> Ludo’.
> 

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