I think one problem we all experiance here (and I'm not even sure Smart would handle this different) is the fact, the a zmd refresh has to get the current catalog infos from a server (I think it's downloading primary.xml.gz and filelists.xml.gz and maybe even other.xml.gz, can a ZMD expert comment on this?)
Especially in the Factory tree which is very unstable at the moment, these catalog files are changing regularly (several times a week) and thus have to be downloaded over and over again.
Once the tree is considered stable, these catalogs get downloaded a single time and only the update tree is modified. AFAIK, zmd keeps the timestamps of the last update of these catalogs, and if not changed, decides not to download them.
A short look on the files show, that it is downloading around 60MB at the moment. This might take a while. Here, probably the FTP/HTTP[S] Get method is not as cpu friendly as it could be, or maybe it's something completely different.
Its not downloading other.xml.gz usually, but all else if it has changed. Ciao, Marcus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org