Yum extremely slow

[Paul F. Johnson]

Hi,

I'm trying to do a yum update currently and it is amazingly slow. Is
there a problem currently?

I falls over a lot on the kernel-sourcecode package

TTFN

Paul

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 16:34, Paul wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to do a yum update currently and it is amazingly slow. Is
> there a problem currently?
>
> I falls over a lot on the kernel-sourcecode package

amazingly slow doing what? depsolving? downloading packages?

-sv

[Paul F. Johnson]

Hi,
> > I falls over a lot on the kernel-sourcecode package
>
> amazingly slow doing what? depsolving? downloading packages?

Downloading and resolving.

TTFN

Paul

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 17:16, Paul wrote:
> Hi,
> > > I falls over a lot on the kernel-sourcecode package
> >
> > amazingly slow doing what? depsolving? downloading packages?
>
> Downloading and resolving.

Downloading: setup other mirrors in the baseurl line
resolving: yah, known problem, working on new versions to solve this
problem.

-sv

[Stan Bubrouski]

On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 17:18 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 17:16, Paul wrote:
> > Hi,
> > > > I falls over a lot on the kernel-sourcecode package
> > >
> > > amazingly slow doing what? depsolving? downloading packages?
> >
> > Downloading and resolving.
>
> Downloading: setup other mirrors in the baseurl line
> resolving: yah, known problem, working on new versions to solve this
> problem.
>
> -sv

What's the cause?

-sb

[seth vidal]

> What's the cause?

It's been explained a number of times on the yum list, you can check the
archives there.

-sv

[Florin Andrei]

On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 13:34, Paul wrote:
> I'm trying to do a yum update currently and it is amazingly slow. Is
> there a problem currently?

Use a mirror instead of the overloaded master site.

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 03 July 2004 04:03, Florin Andrei wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 13:34, Paul wrote:
> > I'm trying to do a yum update currently and it is amazingly slow.
> > Is there a problem currently?
>
> Use a mirror instead of the overloaded master site.

And (probably stupid question) where might a list of these mirrors be 
found?
> --
> Florin Andrei
>
> http://florin.myip.org/

[Markku Kolkka]

Gene Heskett kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika lauantai, 3. 
heinäkuuta 2004 12:34):
> On Saturday 03 July 2004 04:03, Florin Andrei wrote:
> > Use a mirror instead of the overloaded master site.
>
> And (probably stupid question) where might a list of these
> mirrors be found?

http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 03 July 2004 07:07, Markku Kolkka wrote:
> Gene Heskett kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika lauantai, 3.
>
> heinäkuuta 2004 12:34):
> > On Saturday 03 July 2004 04:03, Florin Andrei wrote:
> > > Use a mirror instead of the overloaded master site.
> >
> > And (probably stupid question) where might a list of these
> > mirrors be found?
>
> http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html

Mmmm, I added a few more of the mirrors with the 'baseurl' syntax, to 
the [Updates-Released] block, but this is as far as I get:
------
[root@coyote root]# yum update

Unable to find pid  <<--this is new, wtf?
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
---------

And its been sitting there for about 3 minutes.  No further network 
activity other than something is doing an outbound query at 30 second 
intervals.

Ah, it exited, with this error:
----------
Damaged or Bad header.info from Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
This is probably because of a downed server or an invalid header.info 
on a repository.
[root@coyote root]#
----------

I've noted that for several of those sites that I've browsed, the only 
fedora is 2, 1 is not being mirrored at these other sites.  Has FC1 
reached its end of life or something?  Over the last month its gone 
from pretty dependable to spotty, to totally non-existant for the 
last 3 days now.