On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 02:22:09PM -0400, billg wrote: .... > Yum was very, very slow. If I didn't know better, as a new user might > not, I would've assumed that it had crashed. .... > 1) Is yum's unresponsiveness due to mirror load? If so, why wasn't > up2date slow? Just dumb luck? Do they not look at the same > repositories? Mirror load is the issue. May 20 was in the peak download of FC2. Add to this a slight bit of confusion because of dynamic mirror selection. If you watch up2date you will see dynamic mirror selection. Some are silly. With a default config I saw a connection to a small European site that was slow. Killed it (I am in California) and on restart it connected to a US mirror and the update went quickly. I suspect that some sort of smarts needs to be invented for improved locality. If I understood this better I could file an enhancement request. Perhaps a cookie could pass time zone info $ date +" %z" -0700 Add N or S for hemisphere... -0700N Simple arithmetic can then look for a match. If no match then widen the search +/- 1,2,3,5,both NS,8,13, any). -- T o m M i t c h e l l /dev/null the ultimate in secure storage.
