F-13 yum in kvm or vmware guests

[Thomas Spura]

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.)

	Thomas