<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 11:15 AM, John R. Dennison <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jrd@gerdesas.com">jrd@gerdesas.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 09:58:59PM -0400, Randy McAnally wrote:<br>
> Anyone else seeing dismal speeds from multiple .edu mirrors? Over the past<br>
> few days? Several .edu mirrors over the past week have been running at<br>
> 3kB/sec - 50kB/sec forcing me to have to clean my yum cache just to get<br>
> through the update process. Latest .edu offender at 3kB/sec is<br>
> <a href="http://mirror.vcu.edu" target="_blank">mirror.vcu.edu</a>. Even yum thinks it's a fast mirror for some reason.<br>
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</div> <a href="http://vcu.edu" target="_blank">vcu.edu</a> has been attrocious for quite some time now; in fact<br>
I've had it blocked from various colo'd boxes since at least<br>
August 1st.<br>
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John<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>This is just a kindergarten-educated guess for my region and totally uninformed and un-educated ones for the neighboring countries. Don't go to the bank with this information.<br><br>For Malaysia, for most of its popular ISPs, the peering is fastest through Singapore, Australia and USA-West Coast. Frequently, speeds from these mirrors are the fastest. Yet, Malaysian client-updates are going to a local mirror first (which is very congested), Indonesia next (which is mind-boggling) then Singapore (which should be second-tier) and Australia beign at the bottom.<br>
<br>Local mirrors here frequently received update requests from clients originating from countries whose ISP peering are somewhat less nominal - Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia and sometimes Bangladesh. Examining the <a href="http://mirrorlist.centos.org">mirrorlist.centos.org</a> shows local mirrors here are being listed in those countries' list at somewhat higher priority compared to those known to be better peered.<br>
<br>I'd say we need to examine the local peering and advise the mirror-administrators, them whom manage <a href="http://mirrorlist.centos.org">mirrorlist.centos.org</a> to change the order of preference for neighbouring countries mirrors-list.<br>
<br>Check it out - <a href="http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=x86_64&repo=os&cc=">http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=x86_64&repo=os&cc=</a><your country code eg. my><br>
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<br>Regards<br></div></div>