> On 12 March 2010 14:08, Patrick O'Callaghan<pocallag...@gmail.com> > However AFAIK what it *actually* does is make a test connection to > the to the candidate mirrors and order them according to response > time, which in many cases is dominated by network latency, which > can distort the results. For well-connected user machines in > first-world countries it probably doesn't matter much
The fact that yum-fastestmirror ignores bandwidth when selecting mirrors is annoying for high bandwidth machines too -- I regularly find that yum selects mirrors which have low latency but whose bandwidth is very poor, which requires a manual update to the exclude list. My wish would be that yum-fastestmirror can be configured with an "expected" bandwidth (or figure it out by itself), and have it automatically switch mirrors if the current mirror isn't up to snuff. Cheers, Raman -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
