Re: [boost] Insanely slow download speeds from SourceForge

On Mar 5, 2017, at 3:17 PM, Louis Dionne via Boost wrote:

I've been getting very slow downloads of Boost from SourceForge during my Travis builds for the past week or so. It goes as low as 40K/s:

Resolving downloads.sourceforge.net (downloads.sourceforge.net)... 216.34.181.59 Connecting to downloads.sourceforge.net (downloads.sourceforge.net)|216.34.181.59|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found Location: https://svwh.dl.sourceforge.net/project/boost/boost/1.63.0/boost_1_63_0.tar.... [following] --2017-03-05 21:08:35-- https://svwh.dl.sourceforge.net/project/boost/boost/1.63.0/boost_1_63_0.tar.... Resolving svwh.dl.sourceforge.net (svwh.dl.sourceforge.net)... 72.5.72.15, 2606:c680:0:b:3830:34ff:fe66:6663 Connecting to svwh.dl.sourceforge.net (svwh.dl.sourceforge.net)|72.5.72.15|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 81984414 (78M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `STDOUT' 33% [============> ] 27,795,206 40.4K/s eta 21m 34s

Is anyone else having the same issue? It's causing many of my builds to time out.

I have noticed really slow download speeds as well. If you are just using the header-only libraries of boost, you could just download each module from github instead. Peter Dimov’s boostdep tool can tell you what modules are needed, and then you can download the tar file for each module from github directly with: https://github.com/boostorg/${module}/archive/${version}.tar.gz I have found this to be much faster than using sourceforge. Paul