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Psylver

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[SOLVED] pacman very slow

Hello,
some days ago I noticed pacman being very slow when synchronizing its database.. I don't remember whether it became slow after upgrading arch, but I thinks so.
First I thought it was not working at all, because when typing "pacman -Sy", it says ":: Synchronizing package databases..." as usual and nothing happens for like 10 minutes (!) Then I'm getting:

core is up to date

And it takes another 5 minutes for:

extra                   621.8K 1014.4K/s 00:00:01 [######################] 100%

(same for community and multilib).

As you can see the download goes fast (1 sec) but it takes ages for it to happen. Nevertheless I tried changing my mirror (usually using "Any") but of course it didn't help.

Hope, someone can help.

Last edited by Psylver (2011-09-04 01:05:32)

bohoomil

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman very slow

You most probably have kernel.org mirror activated in your mirrorlist file; changing it to any other location should help.

Btw: just have seen this thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=125802

Last edited by bohoomil (2011-09-03 14:32:57)

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Psylver

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Registered: 2010-06-10

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman very slow

Thanks.. As I said, I already did what you said but I forgot to comment out the mirror on the top (used for installation). So pacman works fine now.