Default zypper mirror extremely slow

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Hello,

I’m a linux user for around 3 years (1 on fedora, 2 on arch) and recently decided to give openSUSE Tumbleweed a go. I did a network installation and found it odd how it took two hours to download all the default packages of a gnome installation. Today I’ve been playing around installing a few things I need and noticed that the package manager is really slow when it comes to downloading the packages (~500KB/s sometimes 1MB if I’m lucky). I have a 1gbit connection and on Arch the downloads were usually around 80MB/s.

I assume that the mirror which was selected automatically, and is nearest to me, is slow? I’ve browsed quite a bit and haven’t come to a conclusion as it seems not many people have this problem. What can I do to verify this?

Thank you and Best Regards.

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openSUSE Tumbleweed is a rolling release and a few days ago there have been changes to glibc which caused the whole distribution to be rebuild (Tumbleweed - Review of the week 2021/10 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists).

So at the moment many Tumbleweed users who update their system will be served 1000+ packages - quite a strain to the bandwidth of the servers.

I do an update right now (2.400 packages) and my speed is down from usually 1MB to 400kB.

Regards

susejunky

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I found the same this morning with 2600 packages to download. Normally much faster at least for me. I do update normally about 3 or 4 times a week so not that far behind!

Stuart

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That explains it! :)Thanks for the information

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+1 here too. Looks like I don’t need to post my question! Maybe we need a bulletin at the top of the main forum page?

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Hi
Not really, we have a snapshot notice/sticky, hopefully users will read what the next snapshot release involves? A lot of updates to sync out to the mirrors… There is also an expectation that Tumbleweed users keep an eye on the Mailing List as well…

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Oh, good to know! Where does one find the Tumbleweed snapshot notice/sticky?

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Hi
Should show up if you select ‘New Posts’, but show up here: https://forums.opensuse.org/forumdisplay.php/664-Announcements

If using a browser, maybe use the RSS feed either for the Forum or Mailing list, I use feedbro in Firefox and have it pop up a notification via a rule for the factory Mailing list…

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Awesome! Thanks malcolmlewis!