Hi, are we going to have yum-plugin-fastestmirror on C5? Thanks, David Hrbáč
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Ben wrote:
David HrbĂĄÄ wrote:
are we going to have yum-plugin-fastes
its in extras called
yum-fastestmirroralong with a few other yum plugins.
Ben
On Fedora Core 6 yum with yum-fastestmirror dies if ulimit for address space (as reported by ulimit -v) is set and too low. In my tests 'too low' means anything below about 900MB. I believe it depends on the number of mirrors - for each one a thread is created with a few MB of address space cost.
I am wondering if this is same in CentOS 5 (I have not it installed, so I cannot cehck myself at the moment)
Wojtek
On Fedora Core 6 yum with yum-fastestmirror dies if ulimit for address space (as reported by ulimit -v) is set and too low. In my tests 'too low' means anything below about 900MB. I believe it depends on the number of mirrors - for each one a thread is created with a few MB of address space cost.
I am wondering if this is same in CentOS 5 (I have not it installed, so I cannot cehck myself at the moment)
I don't know Fedora's case but in my own CentOS boxes I usually don't install fastest-mirror plugin because the same reason you say: the yum management speed becomes slow.
:S
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote:
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:54:03 +0200 From: Jordi Espasa Clofent jordi.listas@yahoo.es Reply-To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] yum-plugin-fastestmirror and CentOS 5
On Fedora Core 6 yum with yum-fastestmirror dies if ulimit for address space (as reported by ulimit -v) is set and too low. In my tests 'too low' means anything below about 900MB. I believe it depends on the number of mirrors - for each one a thread is created with a few MB of address space cost.
I am wondering if this is same in CentOS 5 (I have not it installed, so I cannot cehck myself at the moment)
I don't know Fedora's case but in my own CentOS boxes I usually don't install fastest-mirror plugin because the same reason you say: the yum management speed becomes slow.
My problem was that yum just died. Now I just specifically set ulimit -v 999000 before running yum and it is OK. fastest-mirror is supposed to choose fastest mirror, so that downloading should be faster. However, I have not investigated if this is so. Unfortunately, yum in any case cannot be exactly described as speed daemon, esp. on PIII machine.
Wojtek
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