Comments on the fastestmirror plugin

[Tony Nelson]

On 10-03-12 16:07:48, Raman Gupta wrote:
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> The fact that yum-fastestmirror ignores bandwidth when selecting 
> mirrors is annoying for high bandwidth machines too -- I regularly 
> find that yum selects mirrors which have low latency but whose 
> bandwidth is very poor, which requires a manual update to the exclude 
> list.
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Type Ctrl-C during a slow download, and then (as it warns) don't type 
it again for at least two seconds.  You'll get the next mirror from the 
list.  It's a yum thing, and also an artifact of how the download 
library works.

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