Throttled download speed from container registry while still being billed
Hello, Im trying to run a custom image from ghcr on a pod, which ive done many times. Its taking a long time, likely going to be 45 mins total just to download the image. I'm also noticing that im being billed while I wait for this very slow download speed.
Is this intentional? If so it seems like a conflict of interests between runpod and the users.
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It might be worth trying a different container registry or switching to a different data center to see if you get better speeds.
What is the region chosen? I encountered a similar problem using EU-RO-1
The network is complex, multiple factors from source to destination, the load on data center links, the location of your image registry and its download speed capabilities, and the routing path between your image registry and our data centers. Since our data centers are located in different countries, the routing path’s congestion and other variables also play a significant role.🥲
I'm getting the same, this "still fetching" while being billed - CA-MTL-1 datacenter.
@yhlong00000 In fact, the speed to download model from huggingface and civitai is acceptable... I wonder, can we pay extra storage fee to hold docker image in the network volume.