From 9a56c5cfaf41ca6eee9d8ec01294f7208418e0de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: memsharded Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:43:44 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] download parallel --- reference/config_files/global_conf.rst | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/reference/config_files/global_conf.rst b/reference/config_files/global_conf.rst index d503e9e109e4..1be321f9f096 100644 --- a/reference/config_files/global_conf.rst +++ b/reference/config_files/global_conf.rst @@ -297,3 +297,14 @@ Those warnings are: - ``deprecated``: Messages for deprecated features such as legacy generators - ``network``: Messages related to network issues, such as retries + + +Parallel download ++++++++++++++++++ + +By default the download and unzip of pre-compiled package binaries from remote servers will happen in parallel, +defaulting to the number of cpu-cores. The configuration ``core.download:parallel=`` can change this +behavior. If ``core.download:parallel=0``, then the behavior will be to not use parallelism and do a sequential +download and unzip of precompiled package binaries. +This ``core.download:parallel`` configuration also affects the ``conan download`` command, but for that command +the default at the moment is not to use parallelism, but sequential download.