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. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
