F12: Yum - network disconnects spins it's wheels.
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Thu Feb 25 23:53:59 UTC 2010
Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> On 02/25/2010 03:21 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>
>> Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Seems to me, that Yum is performing quite
>>> badly. I often get network disconnects and Yum
>>> keeps spinning after going into 0.0b transfer rates
>>> forever and requires a forced kill.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Ahhh.... If you are getting network disconnects then any application
>> yum, firefox, etc. which connects to a remote server would certainly
>> suffer. Some apps/protocols may recover better when the network is
>> restored.
>>
>> So, are you saying that in your case the network connection is dropping
>> frequently and yum isn't recovering as you'd expect?
>>
>>
> I am saying specifically with Yum, it somehow loses the connection,
> and you can see the transfer rate slowly drop to 0.0b, the ETA
> grows ridiculously large and getting larger... and stays that
> way "forever", until one kills yum. This disconnect happens
> quite often that it takes several yum restarts to complete
> the downloads.
>
>> Or....
>>
>>
>>> Anyone see this problem?
>>>
>>> I am of course using NetworkManager, and wonder
>>> if I should use the old-network connectivity style?
>>>
>>>
>> Are you saying you're having frequent network disconnects, but you don't
>> know why, and you are trying to solve that problem?
>>
>>
> Yes, and I do not know why - seems the other apps are running
> fine, AFAIK, unless there is a test that can ram the network hard
> to see if it is dropping network connections frequently or not.
>
> So, I am willing to test the network on F12 to discover if the
> problem is mine alone. Could you or someone tell me how
> check this out? I had no problems on F9/11 - works fine.
>
>
OK, I believe I understand your question a bit better.
Since you are able to use firefox, for example, without problem it
doesn't appear you have a true network issue. Or, at least, it isn't
local to you. If firefox were also giving you grief it would be a
different story.
Generally I'm having no issues with yum on updates or installs. I did
have to add "exclude=.gov, .sg"
to my fastestmirror.conf as I use yum-plugin-fastestmirror and have had
issues with slow network to Singapore.
Are you using yum-plugin-fastestmirror?
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