<DIV>mirrorselect -D -s 5 -o >> /etc/make.conf<BR></DIV>
<DIV>will download a 100k test file from each the servers and save the best 5 (or how many you want)</DIV>
<DIV>can take awhile but get the best results (30 min max on mine)</DIV>
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<DIV>99% of times I dload @> 150K</DIV>
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<DIV><BR><B><I>dsbrown@cyllene.uwa.edu.au</I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Quoting Jim Householder <NOFIXED@WESTNET.COM.AU>:<BR><BR>> William Kenworthy wrote:<BR>>><BR>>> 3. planetmirror sucks - dont use it.<BR>> I tried mirrorselect -a and it only gave me<BR>> GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/Gentoo"<BR><BR>Hello Jim,<BR><BR>If you want a few more potential mirror candidates, use the -sn option to<BR>mirrorselect, where n=limit to some number of candidates. For example<BR>mirrorselect -a -s3 would limit the choices to the three best (based on<BR>time to respond/download the test stream.)<BR><BR>> I'm getting *very* slow response on some network access. Occasionally I<BR><BR>Pass on the DHCP bit but regards the NFS...<BR><BR>This *may* be a result of mis-matched NFS's... for example I have a Debian<BR>box with NFS version 3 and a Gentoo machine with version 4 and the same<BR>delay happens. For various reasons The Time
Is Not Right (tm) to<BR>upgrade the Debian machine :-) But I have reason to believe that will<BR>give a better result. (Sorry, do not have earlier postings in this<BR>thread ATM so forgive if this is off base.)<BR><BR>HTH<BR>Denis<BR><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>PLUG discussion list: plug@plug.org.au<BR>http://www.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/plug<BR>Committee e-mail: committee@plug.linux.org.au<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><p>__________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around <br>http://mail.yahoo.com