On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 08:41 +0000, Brian Green wrote:
Ken Schneider wrote:
On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 11:16 +0000, Brian Green wrote: <snip>
It may appear to hang when it actually just takes a very long time to refresh. On my laptop I start up Software Management and walk away for about 10 minutes because it takes so long.
Ken, valid point, and I did consider that I was expecting too much! But, until the w/e, refresh from all of the mirror sites I was accessing was 'almost' instant. In this case Software Management required a 'Forced Quit' as Abort was inactive. Similarly, I could directly access the mirror sites by http/ftp without any pause. Hence, I rationalised that the problem was internal (conflict with some 'reference' table ???) rather than external (i.e. everybody access the same mirror sites as me a the same time ...).
You must remember that a lot more takes place then just accessing a web/ftp site. There is a lot of internal processing going on comparing existing file versions with the lists obtained from the web sites. With the same repos on my desktop and laptop, it takes almost twice as long on the laptop to refresh then the desktop. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998