On 09/10/2020 03:45, Per Jessen wrote:
I am surprised you should have better connection to reach across the Atlantic than to one of the 23 US mirrors:-)
For some values of "better" and for some meanings of 'connections' I agree with the OP. here I am in Toronto and geographically the closest servers are in Waterloo, about an hours drive to the west. But the way services work it seems that I have to go though a hub in the USA, round the houses and back again into Canada to get there. Electrically speaking some sites in Europe are fewer hops away. Then again there are time-of-day issues. Times that the eastern seaboards very busy, times that transatlantic links are busy. Then again, TCP being what it is, even a specific packet in a session might get re-routeed, and don't expect the UDP things like ping and traceroute to really tell you what's going on with network traffic and traffic management. But I have a feeling that real reasons for 'poor performance' lies with the repository machines. Are they overloaded by requests for the repositories? I doubt it. Are they top grade machines etc etc etc. Again I doubt it. But if I have to apportion 'blame', I'd blame to performance and responsiveness of the machine at the far end. After all, this is FOSS; in effect these are 'parasitic' services. Many years ago all use UNIX types in the GTA like and talked to each other on UUCP. The GTA is actually a large dealing area, and we had maps that allowed what amounted to local calls to reach most of southern Ontario. Further afield we relied on the universities for a UUCP-to-ARPANET-to-UUCP so as to connect to other parts of the world. Well, OK, North America. The parts of of Europe became networked so we no longer paid for transatlantic phone calls for UUCP. Then the university decided that this support of hobbyists was an unnecessary expense. (Not, I think, that anyone ever ran the numbers.) About this time ANC was trying out DARPA's relaxation of rules and what they called 'CO+RE', an acronym for 'Commercial plus Research', a way they justified running both types of services over the same wires. I decided to pay for that and resell it. on the one hand I was vilified by when I offered a UUCP gateway that I charged for (that was still below LD phone costs!) and lauded by a lot of companies that could now do great communication stuff. The point I'm trying to make here is that these universities support FOSS in various ways. maybe they also offer a programming or OS course that is structured around Linux and can justify supporting repositories. Maybe Redhat/IBM supports is. Or maybe not. As they always say: "Look to where the money is". Linux is about FOSS. Some firms have found ways to moneytorise the 'free', but many here rely on it being effectively free (or at least not costing more than the machine and the 'net connection and their time). Don't expect the repositories to be supported, run and perform as you might expect if they were run by a for-profit enterprise like Microsoft. -- “Reality is so complex, we must move away from dogma, whether it’s conspiracy theories or free-market,” -- James Glattfelder. http://jth.ch/jbg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org