On 04/06/2019 08:36, Per Jessen wrote:
Anton Aylward wrote:
One of the greatest delays is when , early one, zypper probes the sites of every repository listed, to check the stat/data of the repository to see if there are updates. For that, openSUSE-Leap-42.3-Update using http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/42.3/oss/ takes an incredible long time @ less tan 200, often less than 50 kBITS/sec, sometimes with long stretches at zero throughput. The last time when it did that was one of the occasions that netstat told me the connection was to mirror.karneval.cz
For 42.3-update, that is a bit odd, but with only four Canadian mirrors, it is possible.
When I drilled down at those sites it turns out that they don't mirror much, essentially what is current, and as I'm sure you'll tell me, 42.3 is approaching EoL. They certainly don't have the KDE: and Kernel stuff that is pretty huge.
I looked up mirrors for ARCHIVES.gz and your IP address (104.234.... ?) and got the same four mirrors as I listed earlier.
Yes, see above.
Patrick's idea is still a good one, but there is still the issue of the probing of a huge number of sites to see how the respond for me..
If the connection to your "local" mirrors is so poor, maybe start by looking at mirrors in countries to which Canada might likely have decent pipes.
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