Can't download dmd in FreeBSD .. Slow!

Seb seb at wilzba.ch
Fri Jul 24 12:57:40 UTC 2020


On Friday, 24 July 2020 at 05:56:51 UTC, FeepingCreature wrote:
> On Friday, 24 July 2020 at 05:47:19 UTC, zoujiaqing wrote:
>> # wget 
>> http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2.x/2.093.0/dmd.2.093.0.freebsd-64.tar.xz
>> --2020-07-24 10:24:35--  
>> http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2.x/2.093.0/dmd.2.093.0.freebsd-64.tar.xz
>> Resolving downloads.dlang.org (downloads.dlang.org)... 
>> 52.218.233.250
>> Connecting to downloads.dlang.org 
>> (downloads.dlang.org)|52.218.233.250|:80... connected.
>> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
>> Location: 
>> http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2020/dmd.2.093.0.freebsd-64.tar.xz [following]
>> --2020-07-24 10:24:36--  
>> http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2020/dmd.2.093.0.freebsd-64.tar.xz
>> Reusing existing connection to downloads.dlang.org:80.
>> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
>> Length: 18729036 (18M) [application/x-tar]
>> Saving to: 'dmd.2.093.0.freebsd-64.tar.xz'
>>
>> dmd.2.093.0.freebsd-64.tar.xz            20%[===============>
>>                                                           ]   
>> 3.69M  --.-KB/s    eta 12h 41m
>>
>>
>> FreeBSD ports so old and bugly:
>> https://www.freshports.org/lang/dmd2/
>
> Don't tell dlang:
>
> wget --continue --tries=inf --timeout=1 url.
>
> The server sometimes takes a break in the middle of the 
> download, I don't know why, probably a misconfiguration.

The server is an AWS S3 bucket. The bucket is located in the US 
though.

There are a few mirrors that the install script will try as 
fallbacks, so using the official install script is recommended:

https://dlang.org/install

If you can't or don't want to use the install script, one mirror 
is http://ftp.digitalmars.com/


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