Excerpts from Alexander Duscheleit's message of 2010-08-18 04:07:23 +0200: > Hi, > > since I upgraded to pacman 3.4.0 I notice a strange behavior in the way > pacman integrates with my local mirror server. First, pacman opens a new > ftp connection for every download, which spams the logs a lot. Second, > pacman doesn't seem to close those connections either at all, or at > least not in a timely fashion. This results in pacman not being able to > download more than a hand full of packages before my ftp won't let it > connect anymore. The server-log says: > > Aug 18 00:42:38 titan proftpd[4666]: titan.huntemann.uni-oldenburg.de - > MaxInstances (30) reached, new connection denied > > over and over while pacman switches to the next mirror for every > download. > > The pacman frontend clyde exhibits the same behavior, so I suspect the > culprit is somewhere in libalpm. Pacman prior to 3.4.0 did not show > this behavior and all downloads worked fine. > > Greetings, > Alex Hmm, this could be the reason for the behavior I experience recently. Every time I update a couple of packages it fails to download all of them. If I try again and again it works. I thought it was due to improperly synced mirrors, but it happens far too frequently. Just now it downloaded 4 packages. In the subsequent run four more, and so on. -- Philipp -- "Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu und alle Fragen offen." Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan
