F-13 yum in kvm or vmware guests

[Seth Vidal]

On Thu, 6 May 2010, Thomas Spura wrote:

> Am Donnerstag, den 06.05.2010, 08:53 -0400 schrieb Seth Vidal:
>>
>> On Thu, 6 May 2010, Hedayat Vatnakhah wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Warren Togami <warren at togami.com> wrote on ‫پنجشنبه ۰۶ مه ۱۰، ۰۲:۱۰:۴۸‬:On ۱۰/۰۵/۰۶  02:10, Warren Togami
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> (10/12): samba-3.5.2-60.fc13.x86_64.rpm           (71%) 73%
>>> [============================-          ]  0.0 B/s | 3.7 MB
>>> 3340883129410265958989882401668816722716705737932:48 ETA
>>>
>>> Anyone else seeing this kind of behavior with F-13 yum within kvm or
>>> vmware guests?  It seems to happen consistently here in the middle of
>>> downloading multiple packages where I need to kill yum and try again.
>>>
>>>
>>> It is nothing new if you've tried using yum in a poor internet connection. I've seen it regularly in Fedora
>>> 12 and IIRC Fedora 11.
>>>
>>
>> Hedayat,
>>   Regularly, huh? That could be helpful to me in fixing this bug.
>>
>> Do you think you'd be able to try a couple of patches?
>
> My workaround for this was to kill the connection and yum will search
> then a new server and restart the connection.
>
> Maybe if the rate is < 0.5 B/s -> restart the connection would be a
> solution for this?
>
> (Didn't saw this issue quite a while now, but I could try to reproduce
> this and test your patches.)
>

upstream urlgrabber has a patch for low speed limit that may fix this.

-sv