Greg Freemyer composed on 2015-07-29 13:20 (UTC-0400):
Felix Miata wrote:
Graham P Davis composed on 2015-07-29 14:48 (UTC+0100):
On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 14:44:54 +0200 Carlos E. R. wrote:
Felix Miata wrote:
mirrorbrain points me to a slow download.opensuse.org mirror, I'd like to be able to repoint to something with decent throughput, hopefully because physically closer.
Anything in your continent is close enough in Internet terms. Kilometres are irrelevant, what matters is the pipe type and size.
Obscure things. Maybe such things should be part of the mirrors list?
A better option would be to get mirrorbrain to select the best performing link automatically.
+1
Surely it already has some algorithm for making the selection. Adding the ability to blackball (possibly for just a short period of time) a slow responding site would take it out of the users hands.
+1
I guess the question is if the mirrorbrain needs extra functionality or if it has a bug that isn't causing it to move on to a better performing mirror.
I would think the following from zypp.conf should be able to cover the problem, but I'm not sure whether it can or does. ## Sets the minimum download speed (bytes per second) ## until the connection is dropped ## This can be useful to prevent security attacks on hosts by ## providing updates at very low speeds. ## ## 0 means no limit ## # download.min_download_speed = How many BPS would be appropriate? There is no man page for zypp.conf. The only guidance is as I pasted above, which is to say in practical terms, none. Should it be 1000? 10000? 100000? 1000000? 1K? 1M? 1G? 1kb? 1mb? 1gb? This problem seems to arise here on account of Ludwig's new snapshot announcements, which seem to get sent before mirrors get a chance to sync, leaving contact attempts limited to an overloaded source from which mirrors are trying to sync. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org