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Subject:    Re: [opensuse] One repo in the pool killing updates - probably utexas.edu
From:       John Andersen <jsamyth () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-09-20 22:25:16
Message-ID: 4C97DF4C.5080808 () gmail ! com
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On 9/20/2010 3:18 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> It is literally like Russian-Roulette updating openSuSE with the mirror pool you \
> get with download.opensuse.org. There is at least 1 maybe more mirrors that give no \
> more than 1-4K/s download speed. (utexas.edu is a know problem repo). This is \
> getting ridiculous. I have had to kill 3-4 updates in the past 2-3 days when I hit \
> one of these mirrors. It would take more than an hour to download an 800k file. 
> I have searched zypper.log and can't find the problem mirror this time. Where to \
> look? Also, this has been a problem for more than a year, why aren't these mirrors \
> being dropped or fixed? I end up having to hard-code the mirror I want just to get \
> reasonable consistent updates. Something should be done to correct this.
> 
> 

Hard code them to go direct to opensuse.org might work (as long as its not some \
redirected thingie). I never trust mirrors if I can avoid them.
I used to prefer the german suse sites.
(Because they are asleep when I want updates, - less contention).


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