Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > The yum fastestmirror plugin (yum-plugin-fastestmirror) claims to > evaluate the speed of a bunch of repo mirrors and use the fastest one > relative to the user's location. > > However AFAIK what it *actually* does is make a test connection to the > to the candidate mirrors and order them according to response time, > which in many cases is dominated by network latency, which can distort > the results. For well-connected user machines in first-world countries > it probably doesn't matter much, and may have the beneficial effect of > spreading the load over a wider range of mirrors, but for those of us in > a less privileged position it can matter a lot. Ironically, these are > the cases where such an optimization could do the most good. > And there you have the heart of the problem, the evaluation is not remotely correct for most cases. It would be worth adding code to download some small RPM from a number of sites and measure b/w for something real. However, disabling the feature works, too. -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
