Re: [boost] Insanely slow download speeds from SourceForge

Subject: Re: [boost] Insanely slow download speeds from SourceForge
From: Paul Fultz II (pfultz2_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-03-06 02:44:33

> On Mar 5, 2017, at 3:17 PM, Louis Dionne via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]> 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.bz2
> [following]
>    --2017-03-05 21:08:35-- 
> https://svwh.dl.sourceforge.net/project/boost/boost/1.63.0/boost_1_63_0.tar.bz2
>    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