F12: Yum - network disconnects spins it's wheels.

[Steven Stern]

On 02/25/2010 07:57 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>> On 02/25/2010 03:58 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>>   
>>>
>>> Yes.  I tried it with and without.  Problems are the same.  Seems to
>>> me it is a yum problem, but I am speculating.  I am running FF. sendmail,
>>> DNS, etc.. a LOT of services and I am not seeing any problems.  Just
>>> with yum installs/updates.
>>>    
>>>     
>> OK, it seems that when I removed yum-fastestmirror, the problem went away.
>> Perhaps fastestmirror is not playing nice!  I noticed that it was 
>> hard-hitting
>> the network and perhaps reaches a bandwidth limit and causes breakage?
>>
>> Dunno..  I think I will stick with this for now.
>>
>>   
> You could try removing /var/cache/yum/timedhosts.txt and then enabling
> fastestmirror again. I did that when I was troubleshooting when I found
> the problem with Singapore.  FWIW, Singapore had been working just
> fine.  I think there may have been undersea cable problem at the time. 
> I've not gone back to find if the problem still exists.
> 
> 
Fastestmirror isn't a reliable plugin, IMO. It seems to be based on ping
times, not the download bandwidth for any given site.

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-- Steve