<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">mirror manager wont fix issues like that all the time<div><br></div><div>as that issue could be due to many reasons - some of which mirror manager may not pick up</div><div><br></div><div>for example routing issue between you and selected mirror</div><div>or if the "outage" occurs between mirror check probes</div><div><br></div><div>that error message below is your yum client timing out and moving on</div><div><br></div><div>you can tune this in /etc/yum.conf with the following variables</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">retries=N From the man pages: "6" is the default</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">timeout=N Where N is expressed in seconds</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><br></span></div><div><div apple-content-edited="true"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Anthony Somerset <br> <br>Somerset Technical Solutions Ltd. <br><a href="http://www.somersettechsolutions.co.uk">www.somersettechsolutions.co.uk</a> <br>Registered in the UK – Company no. 07738444 </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">VAT Registration No: 140 6916 22<br>T: +44 (0) 33 0088 2751 <br>E: <a href="mailto:anthony@somersettechsolutions.co.uk">anthony@somersettechsolutions.co.uk</a><br>PGP: 0x7C892BF5<br><br></div>
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<br><div><div>On 24 Sep 2013, at 07:31, Martynas UAB Duomenų Centras <<a href="mailto:martynas@aleja.lt">martynas@aleja.lt</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Hello,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Time to time some of the centos mirrors are unreachable (due many reasons).<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">So on “yum ugrade” we got messages like:<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="http://ftp.vectranet.pl/centos/6.4/updates/x86_64/repodata/fe8fa2beebe6c36885425555cf44699c00ffbc357c4323a7d0f01f86f0f8ac3c-primary.sqlite.bz2:" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">http://ftp.vectranet.pl/centos/6.4/updates/x86_64/repodata/fe8fa2beebe6c36885425555cf44699c00ffbc357c4323a7d0f01f86f0f8ac3c-primary.sqlite.bz2:</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[Errno 12] Timeout on<a href="http://ftp.vectranet.pl/centos/6.4/updates/x86_64/repodata/fe8fa2beebe6c36885425555cf44699c00ffbc357c4323a7d0f01f86f0f8ac3c-primary.sqlite.bz2:" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">http://ftp.vectranet.pl/centos/6.4/updates/x86_64/repodata/fe8fa2beebe6c36885425555cf44699c00ffbc357c4323a7d0f01f86f0f8ac3c-primary.sqlite.bz2:</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(28, 'Operation too slow. Less than 1 bytes/sec transfered the last 30 seconds')<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Trying other mirror.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">It takes a lot of time to wait while mirror check fails!<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Is in CentOS roadmap better mirror manager, to make users use nearest local mirrors, not from abroad!?<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Why yum fastest mirror plugin is not dropping server that don’t respond in three seconds, if it don’t respond for 30sec can it be fastest?<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Martynas<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>CentOS-mirror mailing list<br><a href="mailto:CentOS-mirror@centos.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">CentOS-mirror@centos.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror</a></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>