I’ve been trying to figure out why out of the 20+ guests I run in VirtualBox, whenever I need to do updates in openSUSE I am fed packages at between 300 kB/s-1.8 kB/s when I am on a 50 mb/s fiber line. Most guests I have say they are running at up to 3000+ kB/s. or is the they mean “bits” and openSuse means “bytes”?
It does seems to take quite a bit longer though.
Sorry if this is the wrong area to post btw.
Sometimes the repos can be slow, but I haven’t found that lately. I have a 120 Mb/sec connection, sometimes packages come in at 12MB(!)/sec, which is about the max.
There’s a couple of things you can do:
Good luck,
BTW. Not a bad choice to post here, you suspect a networking problem, don’t you?
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The capital ‘B’ means bytes (vs. bits) so that is probably bytes. With
that said, your connection is only relevant to the point that the server
you access can respond to your queries. If speed were only determined by
the fastest line speed between you and the server every click would result
in an instantaneous response and no delays for anybody on a broadband
connection while surfing the vast majority of the web.
Good luck.
On 10/19/2010 03:06 AM, loukingjr wrote:
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> I’ve been trying to figure out why out of the 20+ guests I run in
> VirtualBox, whenever I need to do updates in openSUSE I am fed packages
> at between 300 kB/s-1.8 kB/s when I am on a 50 mb/s fiber line. Most
> guests I have say they are running at up to 3000+ kB/s. or is the they
> mean “bits” and openSuse means “bytes”?
>
> It does seems to take quite a bit longer though.
> Sorry if this is the wrong area to post btw.
>
>
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I guess what I was trying to say was, most all my other guests download at anywhere from 5.1 MB/s to 3 MB/s on average(or 5000 kB/s to 3000kB/s). If I test on speedtest.net here in the states, my download speed runs an avg. of 43 Mb/s. It seems the openSUSE repos are running a tenth the speed of other guests at best. many of the packages from openSUSE come along at dialup speeds.
I’m not sure I can change repos at the moment because I am running 11.4 m2 and and connected to the pacman repos. I don’t even know where that repo is.
what I do know is I am getting 2 GB of updates and they should only take about 8 mins or so to download. It’s been almost two hours now.
I just realized there is no way I should be getting 2 GB and 1144 packages to update unless the milestone 3 packages are up early. I think I am just going to wait for 11.4 M3 on Nov 5th and install that.
thank you both for replying though.
You should monitor the speed with an external application just to be sure - for some users (including me) zypper has been showing weird speedstats in the past while the actual download was running at maximum speed.