yum: slowwww mirror

[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?

TIA,
Mike Wright

[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

[Tom Horsley]

On Fri, 08 Mar 2013 21:28:04 +0100
Reindl Harald wrote:
> have you installed this stupid "fastest-mirrors" plugin?

Actually fastest-mirrors is what you want. It is never actually
right about which mirrors are fastest, but it also allows you
to blacklist certain mirrors (which is the useful bit).

Discovering the files to edit and the syntax to use
is a separate problem though :-).

[Reindl Harald]

Am 08.03.2013 21:42, schrieb Tom Horsley:
> On Fri, 08 Mar 2013 21:28:04 +0100
> Reindl Harald wrote:
> > have you installed this stupid "fastest-mirrors" plugin?
>
> Actually fastest-mirrors is what you want. It is never actually
> right about which mirrors are fastest

it is useless bullshit

in austria it ALWAYS selects the tuwien servers
which are creeping since many months between a
few MB/sek down to some bytes per second on a
100 MBit fiber

this plugin is broken by design because the ping
does not say anything about bandwidth which is
the meassure for fast or not

[Reindl Harald]

Am 08.03.2013 21:45, schrieb Reindl Harald:
> Am 08.03.2013 21:42, schrieb Tom Horsley:
> > On Fri, 08 Mar 2013 21:28:04 +0100
> > Reindl Harald wrote:
> > > have you installed this stupid "fastest-mirrors" plugin?
> >
> > Actually fastest-mirrors is what you want. It is never actually
> > right about which mirrors are fastest
>
> it is useless bullshit
>
> in austria it ALWAYS selects the tuwien servers
> which are creeping since many months between a
> few MB/sek down to some bytes per second on a
> 100 MBit fiber
>
> this plugin is broken by design because the ping
> does not say anything about bandwidth which is
> the meassure for fast or not

"few MB/sek" was a typo - few KB per second
and few means below 100 while the line easily
can get 10 MEGABYTES per second a lot of mirrors
at least give you 5-8 MEGABTYE per second