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eclipse update website next to unusable [message #195780]

Wed, 16 February 2005 10:50

Eclipse User

I am not sure, whether this is the appropriate forum - if there is a
better one: please advise.

I am now trying to download a specific eclipse plugin (the SWT examples)
since two days and had at least 50 attempts which all failed! Somewhere
between 50% and 80% the download usually stalls and I get an error
message "unable to retrieve remote reference
" http://update.eclipse.org/updates/3.0/plugins/org.eclipse.sw t.examples_3.0.0.jar".
[Operation timed out: could be due to invalid address]".

Since I downloaded this same plugin to another machine about a week ago
I guess, the address should be correct.
What could cause this? Of course all these repeatedly started but later
dropped downloads contribute to a (useless) serverload, but is the
server really THAT overloaded?

Michael

Re: eclipse update website next to unusable [message #196152 is a reply to message #195780]

Fri, 18 February 2005 12:09

Eclipse User

This download thing starts getting on my nerves! Day 4 and no
improvement in sight - it is actually getting worse and worse! I now
regularly have timeouts already when the thing checks the website
for available downloads, not only after actually starting to download
anything.

This whole concept of extensibility using downloadable plugins that
one can install on demand bursts like a soap bubble, if that download
site is then not capable of serving these requests and one can not get
hold of a plugin for days if not weeks!

Is there some mirror site that holds also the smaller eclipse add-ons
(the misc. SWT implementations and examples, the PDE-SDKs, etc.)?

And what would be the correct "Remote Site URL" of such a mirror?

Michael

Re: eclipse update website next to unusable [message #196748 is a reply to message #196152]

Thu, 24 February 2005 10:39

Eclipse User

Michael, I am having the same problems and my nerves are shot too. Have
you found a solution?

Thanks,

Suzi

Michael Moser wrote:
> This download thing starts getting on my nerves! Day 4 and no
> improvement in sight - it is actually getting worse and worse! I now
> regularly have timeouts already when the thing checks the website for
> available downloads, not only after actually starting to download anything.
>
> This whole concept of extensibility using downloadable plugins that one
> can install on demand bursts like a soap bubble, if that download site
> is then not capable of serving these requests and one can not get hold
> of a plugin for days if not weeks!
>
> Is there some mirror site that holds also the smaller eclipse add-ons
> (the misc. SWT implementations and examples, the PDE-SDKs, etc.)?
>
> And what would be the correct "Remote Site URL" of such a mirror?
>
> Michael
>

Re: eclipse update website next to unusable [message #196918 is a reply to message #196748]

Fri, 25 February 2005 08:03

Eclipse User

"Suzanne Yoakum-Stover" <systover@objectsciences.com> wrote in message
news:cvksf6$5cd$1@www.eclipse.org...
> Michael, I am having the same problems and my nerves are shot too.
> Have you found a solution?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Suzi

Yes and no: downloading at 2:30 in the morning finally did it for that
particular plugin that I wanted.

And then - I noticed - eclipse's website is being moved to new
infrastructure in these days (if I am correct they started the move last
weekend, but proceed in stages mostly over weekends to keep the site
alive during the week. The plan stated something of 2-3 weekends). After
that move hopefully thing should be better again...

Michael

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