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ratcheer

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Registered: 2011-10-09

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[Solved] Why is my fastest repository slow to actually use?

When I run rankmirrors to give the six fastest US repositories, it has been giving the arch.localmsp.org as the fastest for the past few months. However, when I leave it highest in my mirrorlist, actually running pacman maxes out at around 2 MB/sec. If I move arch.mirrors.ionfish.org to the top, I get around 8 MB/sec.

I understand that some mirrors are going to be faster than others, but why does rankmirrors consistently give me one as "the fastest" when it is considerably slower than some of the others?

Tim

Last edited by ratcheer (2015-11-20 13:10:30)

Mr.Elendig

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Re: [Solved] Why is my fastest repository slow to actually use?

rankmirrors doesn't care about anything but ping time and grabbing a really small file, which doesn't really give you a realisting messurement. It also doesn't care if the mirror is actually up to date etc.

Just handsort and then leave the mirrorlist alone until you experience some issue with your selected mirror.

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ratcheer

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Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 912

Re: [Solved] Why is my fastest repository slow to actually use?

Thanks, Mr.Elendig.

Tim

paulkerry

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From: Sheffield, UK

Registered: 2014-10-02

Posts: 611

Re: [Solved] Why is my fastest repository slow to actually use?

I know this is solved, but have you tried using reflector instead of rankmirrors?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Reflector

You could try out some of the examples to see if things improve.