On Tue, 23 May 2006, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
linux:~ # rug sl
# | Status | Type | Name | URI --+--------+------+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | Active | ZYPP | SUSE-Linux-10.1-FTP-EXTRA-10.1-0-20060512-060816 | ftp://ftp4.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1/non-oss-inst-source?alias=SUSE-Linux-10.1-FTP-EXTRA-10.1-0-20060512-060816
2 | Active | ZYPP | SUSE-Linux-10.1-FTP-10.1-0-20060512-060713 | ftp://ftp4.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1/inst-source?alias=SUSE-Linux-10.1-FTP-10.1-0-20060512-060713
The ftp tree is rather large. If you remove it, your system is much faster. This tree has 20 MB of *compressed* xml metadata, downloading and parsing it takes time - too much right now.
My guess would be that most of the time is spent downloading the metadata. In any case, I'd suggest you try ftp-1.gwdg.de instead of ftp4.gwdg.de Regards Christoph