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Use mirrors.ubuntu.com as package source #254

Open jackpot51 opened 4 years ago

jackpot51 commented 4 years ago

This will select better sources for non-US users, and potentially improve package download speeds for all users.

Metadata download speeds may be negatively impacted, should be tested with a freshly installed ISO built from this branch.

jacobgkau commented 4 years ago

Doing another round of testing, at least in some instances, the mirrors:// format appears to be slower than us.archive.ubuntu.com not just in updating metadata, but also in downloading packages.

Us.archive update: 00:05.50 Us.archive install: 00:07.07 Video with timers: https://www.dropbox.com/s/42e8haz62jctz3q/us-archive-install.webm?dl=0

Mirrors update: 00:58.63 (it seemed to get stuck on one that wasn't responding for a while) Mirrors install: 02:03.63 Video with timers: https://www.dropbox.com/s/c25bpa4im9p6v07/mirrors-install.webm?dl=0

(For the timers, the "apt update" timer stopped when the command finished to be consistent with the tests from last week, but the "apt install" timer stopped when it got done with the actual download portion.)