dancefire wrote: > Hi, everyone, > > I feel it's slow when I try to download packages by yum. > > The problem is that yum try to download every packages in queue, only > one thread for the download queue, even though yum already figure out > all packages links. > > If there are a few slow site spread in the middle of the download queue, > most other big tasks have to wait for them. So the overall bandwidth > usage is very low. > > Usually, there are 2 solutions for this kind of problems. > > 1. Use multi-thread download task manager. There is a thread pool, and > one thread for one package download task. So, no task can slow down the > others. > > 2. Use multi-thread download program, such as prozilla, to increase the > speed of single package downloading. > > So, is there any plan/way of yum that can implement such solution. If > not, I think it's good idea and should be consider to implement both, or > at least the first one. > > Regards, > > Dancefire > > You can speed up downloading by using the fastest mirror plugin from yum-util, then the fastest mirror will be used for downloading. Tim
