On Friday 09 March 2007, John Andersen wrote: > On Friday 09 March 2007, Carlos E. R. wrote: > > > > The Friday 2007-03-09 at 09:23 -0900, John Andersen wrote: > > I have only four: the dvd, the oss repo, the non-oss repo, and the > > oficial update repo - lets ask rug what repos are configured: > > > > nimrodel:~ # time rug sl > > > > [ half an hour later, the command hasn't produced any output yet...] > > [ ah, here we go at last! ] > > > > > > # | Status | Type | Name | URI > > --+--------+------+-----------------+------------------------------------------- > > 1 | Active | ZYPP | 20070216-072531 | > > cd:///?devices=/dev/hdc&alias=20070216-... > > 2 | Active | ZYPP | 20070216-192032 | > > http://suse.bifi.unizar.es/opensuse/dis... > > 3 | Active | ZYPP | 20070216-192152 | > > http://suse.bifi.unizar.es/opensuse/dis... > > 4 | Active | ZYPP | 20070216-193512 | > > ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/%2fpub/suse/update/10.2 > > > > > > real 33m44.703s > > user 0m0.988s > > sys 0m0.060s > > > > Ie, 33 minutes just to tell me just what services (repos) are there. It > > should answer instantly! But no, it had to connect and download the damm > > catalogue! > > I have one less, (deliberately removed the DVD), and my times on an old clunk > dual celeron machine that I use for mail reading are only 7 minutes. > > Given that everything you do requires a download, it may help to choose > faster mirrors. > > But clearly this is unacceptable. > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/zmd> time rug sl > Waking up ZMD...Done > > # | Status | Type | Name | URI > --+--------+------+-----------------+------------------------------------------- > 1 | Active | ZYPP | 20060918-200641 | > http://software.opensuse.org/download/r... > 2 | Active | ZYPP | 20060918-202952 | > http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/suse/update/1... > 3 | Active | ZYPP | 20061203-124928 | > http://mirror.geht-schon.de/packman.lin... > > > real 7m19.376s > user 0m2.520s > sys 0m0.156s > Once done, or course subsequent calls to zmd are pretty fast: The second time i did this took 2 seconds [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/zmd> time rug sl
# | Status | Type | Name | URI --+--------+------+-----------------+------------------------------------------- 1 | Active | ZYPP | 20060918-200641 | http://software.opensuse.org/download/r... 2 | Active | ZYPP | 20060918-202952 | http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/suse/update/1... 3 | Active | ZYPP | 20061203-124928 | http://mirror.geht-schon.de/packman.lin... real 0m2.473s user 0m2.636s sys 0m0.156s -- _____________________________________ John Andersen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
