Re: Very SLOW system update

2015-09-13 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 13 September 2015 at 07:55, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Just curious: what is the thinking behind setting fastestmirror=0 by > default? Is it to get around the overhead for calculating the fastest > mirror each time. > > Ranjan > Have a look at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1051554

Re: Very SLOW system update

2015-09-13 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 12:55:36AM -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Just curious: what is the thinking behind setting fastestmirror=0 by default? > Is it to get around the overhead for calculating the fastest mirror each time. Historicall, when it was available with yum, fastestmirror was the source

Re: Very SLOW system update

2015-09-13 Thread Rex Dieter
Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > An update has been running on my system for the last 3-1/2 hours. It > hasn't crashed or died, but it's been very slo If it's the apper update transaction, you can run in a terminal: pkmon to observe the status of the PackageKit daemon, could give a clue what it is d

Re: Very SLOW system update

2015-09-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/13/15 11:16, Kam Leo wrote: > "dnf includes fastestmirror functionality in standard package (no plugin > needed). You just need to enable it in |/etc/dnf/dnf.conf| by setting > |fastestmirror=1|. It is disabled by default (man dnf.conf >

Re: Very SLOW system update

2015-09-12 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Just curious: what is the thinking behind setting fastestmirror=0 by default? Is it to get around the overhead for calculating the fastest mirror each time. Ranjan On Sat, 12 Sep 2015 20:16:32 -0700 Kam Leo wrote: > Found this answer at https://ask.fedoraproject.org : > > "dnf includes fastes

Re: Very SLOW system update

2015-09-12 Thread Kam Leo
Found this answer at https://ask.fedoraproject.org : "dnf includes fastestmirror functionality in standard package (no plugin needed). You just need to enable it in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf by setting fastestmirror=1. It is disabled by default (man dnf.conf

Re: Very SLOW system update

2015-09-12 Thread Juan Lavieri
Hi all. I'm new on fedora but not in Linux (More than 15 years using debian) and I have the same problem. Of course there are a lot of things going wrong (from my point of view) that needs to be solved but I can't find the answer. What I need is time. In Debian there is a tool named apt-spy tha

Re: Very SLOW system update

2015-09-12 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/12/2015 03:34 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: Is there some kind of trouble with the server? Unless we knew just which mirror your system was using there's no way to tell. You might try using iotop, if it's already installed. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscri