slow server

collinm · 2007-04-04 02:44:00

hi

i installed arch 0.8

everytime i install a software with: packman -S
the download is very slow.....

is there any good server to improve the download speed?

thank

iBertus · 2007-04-04 03:20:23

Read the forum thread about the new bandwidth throttling policies for ftp.archlinux.org and select a different mirror.

cschep · 2007-04-04 04:05:52

there is a script in /usr/bin/sortmirrors

that will do just that, sort the mirrors in the pacman.conf file according to speed. It helped me out a ton. my bandwidth maxes out all the time now when grabbing updates, new software, etc.

Also, you could just look at the mirror list and put the one closest to you on the top of your /etc/pacman.conf

good luck!

broch · 2007-04-05 18:19:25

for each repo run rankmirrors
e.g.
sudo rankmirrors -n 10 /etc/pacman.d/current
sudo rankmirrors -n 10 /etc/pacman.d/community
sudo rankmirrors -n 10 /etc/pacman.d/extra
sudo rankmirrors -n 10 /etc/pacman.d/testing

/etc/pacman.d/current and add servers in the correct order generated by rankmirrors for current and so on

collinm · 2007-04-05 22:35:31

i don't rankmirros on my system, where to get it

broch · 2007-04-06 00:47:07

pacman --version
If you have ver 3.0 then rankmirror script should be installed.
It will take some time for the script to probe listed mirrors.

collinm · 2007-04-06 00:53:11

pacman -S pacman :: pacman-2.9.8-4: is up to date. Upgrade anyway? [Y/n] n

iBertus · 2007-04-06 00:54:18

You have to get pacman 3.0 from testing repo.

barebones · 2007-04-06 01:24:48

Or, you could try just commenting out the ftp.archlinux.org mirror in your repos. This might be easier than enabeling testing and installing pacman 3.

mucknert · 2007-04-06 06:23:46

How can you guys possibly recommend the testing-repo to an obvious newbie? I mean: come on! Show some common sense!

To the OP: do the following:

pacman -Sy netselect
sortmirrors

Hopefully, this will give you a faster server.

collinm · 2007-04-06 15:35:14

i'm a newbie with arch.... not with linux
i use suse since release 7

broch · 2007-04-06 22:16:59

to add testing repositories edit
/etc/pacman.conf
and uncomment
[testing]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/testing

then run pacman -Syu
this will first update pacman to 3.0

remember that testing is... testing (but rarely so)

Also from
/etc/pacman.d/current
/etc/pacman.d/community
/etc/pacman.d/extra
/etc/pacman.d/testing

deselect/comment out servers that are far from your home and add some that are closer.

hope this will help

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slow server

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