On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 16:32 -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote: > On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 21:02 -0700, Per Bjornsson wrote: > > The "fastestmirror" yum plugin is your friend - I really think it should > > be part of the default install! > > yum install yum-fastestmirror > > It's not my friend. It seems to always pick the worst mirrors possible. > It shouldn't take 5 minutes to download 100k. In particular, > mirror.clarkson.edu always seems to top the list, and I can only seem to > get about 300bps sustained from them... > > Mirrors need to be ranked by actual download rate, not whatever it is > yum-fastestmirror is doing. (It appears to be simply timing how long it > takes to connect()...) This has been my experience as well, although I can't say if any one slow mirror has consistently outranked another. Often the mirror I get is in Europe and not the U.S. While that's not a problem per se, my habit is to keep traffic on the same continent when I have a choice. :-) After removing or disabling yum-fastestmirror my yum/pup/pirut experience is much more satisfactory. -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Documentation Project: http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/docs/
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