pacman 20kbs cap?

rayzorblayde · 2004-02-17 04:35:22

is there a reason i can only download stuff at 20k? this is really annoying when getting large files. it wasn't like this before, but now nothing will go past 20k. is this a pacman thing or a server thing? either way, is there some way around it?

thanks.

contrasutra · 2004-02-17 04:41:09

http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch … 00853.html

Blaasvis · 2004-02-17 08:05:22

the way around it is to chose another mirror

rberry88 · 2004-02-17 13:27:58

I'll ask around at our next LUG (Linux Users Group) and see if there is anyone that would be interested in hosting mirrors. We have a big install-fest this weekend so there should be quite a few people there that might have the means to do it.

rberry88

rayzorblayde · 2004-02-17 16:53:10

Blaasvis wrote:

the way around it is to chose another mirror

how would i go about choosing another mirror?

sarah31 · 2004-02-17 18:01:45

read the newsrelease it tells you how to use netselect to adjust your pacman.conf server list

andy · 2004-02-17 21:23:24

Also, doesn't anybody ever look at and edit /etc/pacman.conf ? Why wouldn't anybody reorder that list ? From day one I used a German mirror. Occaionally pacman.conf got reset and I wondered "why is this update so slow ? - oh wait, it's using the master ftp server !" and I changed it back to first using a German mirror ....

Even without that tool one should be able to reorder the list of mirrors somewhat.....

sarah31 · 2004-02-17 21:50:21

andy wrote:

Also, doesn't anybody ever look at and edit /etc/pacman.conf ? Why wouldn't anybody reorder that list ? From day one I used a German mirror. Occaionally pacman.conf got reset and I wondered "why is this update so slow ? - oh wait, it's using the master ftp server !" and I changed it back to first using a German mirror ....
Even without that tool one should be able to reorder the list of mirrors somewhat.....

ah when i started with arch the archlinux.org server was at the bottom and i got pathetically sloww speeds because it would go through all the farthest away servers first (ibiblio, etc). i moved archlinux.org to the top and it made a huge difference.

so like andy says look at your pacman.conf and make the logical server the top one and then the most logical order for the rest.

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pacman 20kbs cap?

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