On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 16:32 -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote:
On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 21:02 -0700, Per Bjornsson wrote:
The "fastestmirror" yum plugin is your friend - I really think it should be part of the default install! yum install yum-fastestmirror
It's not my friend. It seems to always pick the worst mirrors possible. It shouldn't take 5 minutes to download 100k. In particular, mirror.clarkson.edu always seems to top the list, and I can only seem to get about 300bps sustained from them...
Mirrors need to be ranked by actual download rate, not whatever it is yum-fastestmirror is doing. (It appears to be simply timing how long it takes to connect()...)
This has been my experience as well, although I can't say if any one slow mirror has consistently outranked another. Often the mirror I get is in Europe and not the U.S. While that's not a problem per se, my habit is to keep traffic on the same continent when I have a choice. :-) After removing or disabling yum-fastestmirror my yum/pup/pirut experience is much more satisfactory.