[Nix-dev] still waiting for https://cache.nixos.org after 5 seconds...

Profpatsch mail at profpatsch.de
Mon May 8 18:25:34 CEST 2017


On 17-05-08 07:08am, Graham Christensen wrote:
> Our cloudfront distribution sees almost almost 100,000 unique users each
> month, each downloading hundreds or thousands of NARs and narinfo files.
> At the size of the cache (many TBs) and traffic it sees, these numbers
> aren't an easy feat.

By now I’m pretty sure the nix 1.11 networking code
is a bit flaky at times, especially the timeout & retry logic.

I heard it was rewritten for 1.12, is that right?

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