GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 652403
Evince downloads extremely slowly
Last modified: 2011-06-13 16:16:26 UTC
The compiled packages of Evince download with just 4-6kb/s (on a gigabit university network). My recommendation is to place the files on sourceforge or at least ibiblio.
Evince uses the gnome ftp servers.
From the sysadmin: <maswan> Anyway, looked at the ticket now, obviously his university is doing something weird, because we're faster than that. We'd need a destination IP and exact URL (in case a file is stuck somehow), but you could also point out to the submitter that ftp.gnome.org is hosted on the same distribution cluster as for instance cdimage.debian.org, and we don't have any performance complaints there
I am now at at home. When I attempt to download the windows msi file from here http://www.miniwiki.org/wiki/index.php?wiki=_content.live.gnome.org%2FEvince%2FDownloads it downloads with the same speed 4-6kb/s (on a 10mbps network).
What is interesting is if I go directly to the site http://live.gnome.org/Evince/Downloads and download the same file from there it downloads with my normal download speed. Looks like the problem is caused by miniwiki.
The same is true for the source files. When downloaded from within miniwiki, they download with 4-6kb/s. When downloaded directly from gnome, there is no problem with the download speed. Typing "evince" gives the first result as http://www.miniwiki.org/wiki/index.php?wiki=_content.projects.gnome.org%2Fevince%2F and only the FOURTH result as http://projects.gnome.org/evince/ . Does anyone have the necessary access to remove the miniwiki stuff. Then it won't (probably) show in google as the first result (after a few months since removed).
TYPO: Second paragraph above should have begun with: "Typing "evince" in Google..."
wtf? miniwiki.org is copying our content as-is!
I've banned 202.67.226.236 from projects.gnome.org and live.gnome.org and a few other sites.