Re: yum: slowwww mirror

[Reindl Harald]

Am 08.03.2013 21:10, schrieb Mike Wright:
>  Hi all,
>  
>  I've been trying to update an f18-xfce using yum.
>  
>  For whatever reason while loading repos I get to fedora.updates and the download rate
> drops down to 3-4 kBs.  f18
>  will be EOL by the time this finishes ;)
>  
>  Ok, disable it.  Try to install something (alsa-utils).  Wants 5.8M but this time at
> 3.0kBs.
>  
>  Is there anyway to find out which one of the repo servers is foobar, and if so, a way to
> blacklist it? 

have you installed this stupid "fastest-mirrors" plugin?
remove and and try "rm -f /var/cache/yum*" to get a
different mirror