[plug] gentoo progress

[WolfBite]

mirrorselect -D -s 5 -o >> /etc/make.conf

will download a 100k test file from each the servers and save the best 5 (or how many you want)
can take awhile but get the best results (30 min max on mine)
 
99% of times I dload @> 150K
 

dsbrown at cyllene.uwa.edu.au wrote:
Quoting Jim Householder :

> William Kenworthy wrote:
>>
>> 3. planetmirror sucks - dont use it.
> I tried mirrorselect -a and it only gave me
> GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/Gentoo"

Hello Jim,

If you want a few more potential mirror candidates, use the -sn option to
mirrorselect, where n=limit to some number of candidates. For example
mirrorselect -a -s3 would limit the choices to the three best (based on
time to respond/download the test stream.)

> I'm getting *very* slow response on some network access. Occasionally I

Pass on the DHCP bit but regards the NFS...

This *may* be a result of mis-matched NFS's... for example I have a Debian
box with NFS version 3 and a Gentoo machine with version 4 and the same
delay happens. For various reasons The Time Is Not Right (tm) to
upgrade the Debian machine :-) But I have reason to believe that will
give a better result. (Sorry, do not have earlier postings in this
thread ATM so forgive if this is off base.)

HTH
Denis



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