# time zypper ref -f --repo UpdateSLE Forcing raw metadata refresh Retrieving repository 'UpdateSLE' metadata ...............................[done] Forcing building of repository cache Building repository 'UpdateSLE' cache ....................................[done] Specified repositories have been refreshed. real 0m15.055s user 0m13.658s sys 0m0.238s # time zypper ref -f --repo Update Forcing raw metadata refresh Retrieving repository 'Update' metadata ..................................[done] Forcing building of repository cache Building repository 'Update' cache .......................................[done] Specified repositories have been refreshed. real 0m1.609s user 0m0.454s sys 0m0.048s # grep sle /etc/zypp/repos.d/*repo /etc/zypp/repos.d/UpdateSLE.repo:baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.3/sle/ # grep '/oss/' /etc/zypp/repos.d/*repo | grep date /etc/zypp/repos.d/Update.repo:baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.3/oss/ # wget http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.3/sle/repodata/repomd.xml --2022-04-20 17:02:14-- http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.3/sle/repodata/repomd.xml Resolving download.opensuse.org (download.opensuse.org)... 195.135.221.134, 2001:67c:2178:8::13 Connecting to download.opensuse.org (download.opensuse.org)|195.135.221.134|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 3120 (3.0K) [text/xml] Saving to: ‘repomd.xml’ repomd.xml 100%[====================================================================================================>] 3.05K --.-KB/s in 0s 2022-04-20 17:02:15 (589 MB/s) - ‘repomd.xml’ saved [3120/3120] # time wget http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.3/sle/x86_64/util-linux-2.36.2-1... --2022-04-20 17:03:11-- http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.3/sle/x86_64/util-linux-2.36.2-1... Resolving download.opensuse.org (download.opensuse.org)... 195.135.221.134, 2001:67c:2178:8::13 Connecting to download.opensuse.org (download.opensuse.org)|195.135.221.134|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found Location: http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/opensuse/update/leap/15.3/sle/x86_64/util-linu... [following] --2022-04-20 17:03:11-- http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/opensuse/update/leap/15.3/sle/x86_64/util-linu... Resolving mirror.us.leaseweb.net (mirror.us.leaseweb.net)... 207.244.94.80, 2604:9a00:2010:a0b8::5 Connecting to mirror.us.leaseweb.net (mirror.us.leaseweb.net)|207.244.94.80|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 1279864 (1.2M) [application/x-redhat-package-manager] Saving to: ‘util-linux-2.36.2-150300.4.20.1.x86_64.rpm’ util-linux-2.36.2-150300.4.20.1.x86_64.rpm =============>] 1.22M 3.59MB/s in 0.3s 2022-04-20 17:03:11 (3.59 MB/s) - ‘util-linux-2.36.2-150300.4.20.1.x86_64.rpm’ saved [1279864/1279864] real 0m0.725s user 0m0.001s sys 0m0.018s It's now about 3.7 hours since I reported on IRC opensuse-admin about how slow refresh of SLE repo is. Earlier it had taken many minutes to refresh SLE. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata