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Otowa

Member

Registered: 2008-03-19

Posts: 4

Download problem with pacman

Hi,

i'm new to archlinux and am currently installing arch, unfortunately pacman waits for about 15-20 seconds after each package before he gets the next one so that installing packages is realy time consuming (downloadspeed of the packages is normal around 600kb/s). i do not have any similiar problems with other distributins or downloads and couldn't find anything like this in the wiki,forum or with a searchengine. i realy don't know what could cause this problem and would appreciate any help.

regards,
otowa

Allan

Pacman

From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 11,400

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Re: Download problem with pacman

Try a different mirror.  Edit /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

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Otowa

Member

Registered: 2008-03-19

Posts: 4

Re: Download problem with pacman

i tried several mirrors, unfortunately same problem with each one

dyscoria

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Registered: 2008-01-10

Posts: 1,007

Re: Download problem with pacman

What filesystem have you got? XFS has a bad history with pacman (it's bad with all the small files pacman uses), though im not sure if it should be performing badly in this particular situation.

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Otowa

Member

Registered: 2008-03-19

Posts: 4

Re: Download problem with pacman

I use ext3, strange thing is, at uni there is no problem, so it seems to be some kind of problem with my router or isp at home, also I have no clou what could case this

nDray

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2007-01-21

Posts: 143

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Re: Download problem with pacman

try using wget or aria2 to download the packages...
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Imp … erformance

Otowa

Member

Registered: 2008-03-19

Posts: 4

Re: Download problem with pacman

thx nDray, already tried that without any success

shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: Download problem with pacman

thx nDray, already tried that without any success

When you download manually a package (or any file) with wget, is it slow to connect or what?

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