Slow update

[Rick Moseley]

On my FC3 machine I get the same slowness occasionally while using "yum 
update".  If you press CTRL-C while yum is trying to download, it 
cancels the connection and makes another connection to another mirror, 
picking up right where it left off.  I had to do CTTRL-C several times 
once when each mirror was pretty slow until it finally found a fast one.

Rahul Sundaram wrote:

>On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:02:16 -0600, Sam Williams <sam at mbz.org> wrote:
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>>I just installed FC3 and up2date is updating lots of files.  It seems a tad
>>slow, though--says I'm receiving at 1-3 kB/sec.  Might it help to cancel the
>>update and restart, hoping for a faster connection to red hat's server?  Or,
>>will that muck up the process, lose a day's worth of slow updating?
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>yum and up2date in fc3 randomly chooses a mirror everytime you update.
>so go ahead and retry it.  there is a lot of updates in there so it
>might help if you clean up what you dont require first
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