Inconsistent Slow downloads from nodejs.org

[broksonic21]

URL:

https://nodejs.org/dist/v20.16.0/node-v20.16.0-linux-x64.tar.gz

Browser Name:

curl

Browser Version:

n/a -multiple

Operating System:

Mac, Linux

How to reproduce the issue:

I am not sure if nodejs/build is the right place to file, so feel free to move

When trying to download a nodejs version, we usually are very fast. We see similar speeds from our CI servers, local, etc across multiple networks

Example:

> curl https://nodejs.org/dist/v20.16.0/node-v20.16.0-linux-x64.tar.gz --output a.tar.gz

  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 44.5M  100 44.5M    0     0  10.7M      0  0:00:04  0:00:04 --:--:-- 10.7M

However, at random times, we get super slow. I can rerun this download 10 times, and 3 will fail with this slowness

it's not a local network issue, as this is happening across multiple networks and people, and appears worse over the last 3 days.

Any insight or additional info I can provide support for?

Example - before I killed it 6 minutes in - 152K download:

> curl https://nodejs.org/dist/v20.16.0/node-v20.16.0-linux-x64.tar.gz --output a.tar.gz

  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
 87 44.5M   87 38.8M    0     0   102k      0  0:07:27  0:06:30  0:00:57  152k^C

Realized that nodejs.org might be better place for this than nodejs/build - sorry for double post. #3853 - I know when there were 500 errors at Fastly, the fix was somewhere in the middle, so not sure which team this is.

[AugustinMauroy]

it's still slow for you ???
This may be due to the fact that it is at the time of release.

[matthiaz]

Yep, still happening. Over the past few days many people reporting this same issue
Different example:

[broksonic21]

Yes, I see slowness and cancellations both now on certain downloads. as per @matthiaz 's view. Something got worse over the last week, IMO

[jamesgecko]

I'm also seeing slowness and timeouts trying to download https://nodejs.org/dist/v20.6.1/node-v20.6.1-darwin-arm64.tar.gz, both in my browser and with Mise.

12:15 gitbook on  main
><((x> mise install node@20.6.1 --verbose
[DEBUG] ARGS: /opt/homebrew/bin/mise install node@20.6.1 --verbose
[DEBUG] Config {
    Config Files: [
        "~/src/opt/gitbook/.nvmrc",
        "~/.config/mise/config.toml",
    ],
}
[DEBUG] ToolRequestSet.build(28.5µs): ToolRequestSet: node@20.6 ruby@system

[DEBUG] install_versions: node@20.6.1
downloading node-v20.6.1-darwin-arm64.tar.gz
[DEBUG] GET Downloading https://nodejs.org/dist/v20.6.1/node-v20.6.1-darwin-arm64.tar.gz to ~/.local/share/mise/downloads/node/20.6.1/node-v20.6.1-darwin-arm64.tar.gz
[DEBUG] GET https://nodejs.org/dist/v20.6.1/node-v20.6.1-darwin-arm64.tar.gz
[DEBUG] starting new connection: https://nodejs.org/
[DEBUG] GET https://nodejs.org/dist/v20.6.1/node-v20.6.1-darwin-arm64.tar.gz 200 OK
Error:
   0: error decoding response body
   1: request or response body error
   2: operation timed out

Location:
   src/http.rs:130

Version:
   2024.8.5 macos-arm64 (2024-08-03)

Backtrace omitted. Run with RUST_BACKTRACE=1 environment variable to display it.
Run with RUST_BACKTRACE=full to include source snippets.

[shanecav84]

FYI, I was dealing with slow/failed downloads using nodenv install 20.16.0 since 11AM EDT today. I retried nodenv a few times, then tried in my browser, and it was still slow/failing. A download was able to finish around 11:55AM EDT - it took about 10 mins

[rx-ted]

I want to download the link https://nodejs.org/dist/v20.16.0/node-v20.16.0-linux-x64.tar.gz , but I found it's not working...
opening https://nodejs.org, it's no response. why?

[flakey5]

This is most likely due to the origin server being overloaded due to a cache purge done by a release (as @AugustinMauroy pointed out). We're still working on better infra for downloads (#3461), but in the meantime, the fix is to just try it again until the download succeeds unfortunately

[AugustinMauroy]

opening https://nodejs.org/, it's no response. why?

That strange because nodejs.org is deployed on vercel and it's shouldn't do that

[ovflowd]

opening nodejs.org, it's no response. why?

That strange because nodejs.org is deployed on vercel and it's shouldn't do that

I'm not sure if they meant nodejs.org or nodejs.org/dist

Anyhow, download issues are outside the scope of this repository. I'm moving this issue to nodejs/build.

[matthiaz]

Another example that ends falling back to source downloading...

[2024-09-11T12:10:48+00:00]     W: Binary download from https://nodejs.org/dist/v18.17.1/node-v18.17.1-linux-x64.tar.xz failed, trying source.
[2024-09-11T12:10:48+00:00]     W: grep: /app/.nvm/.cache/bin/node-v18.17.1-linux-x64/node-v18.17.1-linux-x64.tar.xz: No such file or directory
[2024-09-11T12:10:48+00:00]     W: Provided file to checksum does not exist.
[2024-09-11T12:10:48+00:00]     W: Binary download failed, trying source.
[2024-09-11T12:10:48+00:00]     Detected that you have 8 CPU core(s)
[2024-09-11T12:10:48+00:00]     Running with 7 threads to speed up the build
[2024-09-11T12:10:48+00:00]     W: Downloading https://nodejs.org/dist/v18.17.1/node-v18.17.1.tar.xz...
[2024-09-11T12:13:17+00:00]     W: #=#=#    ``` 

Any idea why nodejs.org downloads continue to fail intermittently?

[flakey5]

Any idea why nodejs.org downloads continue to fail intermittently?

We're still working on the new infra re #3898 (comment)

[emilyz-github]

I ran into this issue today and would appreciate a fix as soon as possible.

# curl --output node-v20.11.1-linux-x64.tar.xz https://nodejs.org/dist/v20.11.1/node-v20.11.1-linux-x64.tar.xz 
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:--  0:03:35 --:--:--     0
curl: (28) Failed to connect to nodejs.org port 443: Connection timed out

[ovflowd]

I ran into this issue today and would appreciate a fix as soon as possible.

# curl --output node-v20.11.1-linux-x64.tar.xz https://nodejs.org/dist/v20.11.1/node-v20.11.1-linux-x64.tar.xz 
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:--  0:03:35 --:--:--     0
curl: (28) Failed to connect to nodejs.org port 443: Connection timed out

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