On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a slow (1Mbps) connection at home, so I'm keen to reduce yum > update times. The fastestmirror plugin ought to be good for someone like > me, but I can't discover any rationale for how it's supposed to work. > This is not helped by the complete absence of documentation. > > For example, I explicitly exclude the .br TLD since FM thinks Brazil is > close to Venezuela where I live. However networkologically they aren't > that close, and downloads from the Brazil mirror(s) general go at 20Kbps > or less. So the weighting algorithm is demonstrably wrong. I've actually > brought this up before on the list, but I don't remember BZing it. My > mistake. > > Anyway, despite this explicit exclusion, yum insists on trying to > download from a Brazil mirror. In fact today it wanted to update json-c > and decided to use Brazil, however there was a connection problem so the > update failed. Several retries gave the same result. > > I then disabled fastestmirror completely and tried again. The update > completed instantly. So I guess I'll be leaving fastestmirror turned off > from now on. > > poc > fastestmirror is broken it should detect the fast speed downloads, but it tries to find the nearest mirror or something else. -- ------------ Itamar Reis Peixoto msn, google talk: itamar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx +55 11 4063 5033 (FIXO SP) +55 34 9158 9329 (TIM) +55 34 8806 3989 (OI) +55 34 3221 8599 (FIXO MG) -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
