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islamguide.com

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Registered: 2006-12-08

Posts: 98

Pacman Download Timeout Issues

Hi!

I occasionally experience timeout issues in which my package download stalls at 0.00kb/s halfway through the download. This often forces me to restart the whole procedure. Sometimes pinging some sites managed to get it going again. I suspect this is due to my computer being connected to a router.

Consequently, I tried various other ways to download pacman packages using the Xfercommand. Using aria2 results in occasional corrupted downloads or failed connections. Using wget still results in time out problems. Eventually, I tried prozilla and those problems went away.

XferCommand = proz %u

Note:  no idea how to log downloads or use multiple specified mirrors as in pacget script

Is there something else i could do to circumvent timeout issues?

Thanks in advance!

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byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: Pacman Download Timeout Issues

Before turning to any download scripts, make sure you have read Mirrors.

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islamguide.com

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Registered: 2006-12-08

Posts: 98

Re: Pacman Download Timeout Issues

Thx for your input. Ya, I've read mirrors and changing mirrors only helps improve download speed. Timeout problems still exist.

Btw, is there a way to prevent the monitor from turning itself off after a period of inactivity? Time out always seem to occur because of that.

Thanks in advance!

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Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 11,912

Re: Pacman Download Timeout Issues

Check your bios settings, specially the power saving part.

Some bioses allow the networkcard to be shut down after a time of inactivity (meaning no mouse/keyboard activity) .

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islamguide.com

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Registered: 2006-12-08

Posts: 98

Re: Pacman Download Timeout Issues

Check your bios settings, specially the power saving part.

I've checked the bios and afaik there are no options relating to that..

Thx for the suggestion.

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Bebo

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From: Göteborg, Sweden

Registered: 2006-06-07

Posts: 207

Re: Pacman Download Timeout Issues

I have a feeling this might be a long shot, but try disabling TCP window scaling. There are issues with that on kernels >= 2.6.17. Set this with echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling and see what happens.