Am 05.05.2013 21:49, schrieb Mike Wright: > 05/05/2013 12:23 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> On Sun, 2013-05-05 at 12:12 -0400, Fernando Cassia wrote: >>> Is there any rationale for NOT making yum-fastestmirror the default?? >> >> Because it doesn't work? The heuristic it uses is far too simple-minded. >> I've often had to hand-edit the mirror list to stop it trying to >> download from nearby mirrors which have low latency but also very low >> bandwidth. >> > That's not the only thing simple minded about yum. > > One simple improvement would be to tell which mirror it's connecting to. > I've been trying to yum update f18 all > day and it keeps choosing the same damn mirror (no idea which) with a > whopping 7.9k data rate. f27 will be out > before this joke is done
well, and in older releases you could simply press CTRL+C to switch to anohter mirror until you have one which is as fast as your cennection but hey, we live in the world of improvement...........
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