[ATrpms-users] atrpms.net blocking?

[Axel Thimm]

On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 08:40:35PM +0200, ds3 at destruction.dystopic.org wrote:
> On Fri, 5 May 2006, Axel Thimm wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for the suggestion, I'll try filtering out TIME_WAIT.
> >
> > But that's a bug in yum, as it is supposed to reuse connections. Are
> > you perhaps using an ancient version of yum?
> 
> Stock FC5 yum, yum --version says 2.6.1,  rpm -q -f /usr/bin/yum says 
> yum-2.6.1-0.fc5, so I imagine it wouldnt be particularly ancient, and 
> probably fairly widely deployed.
> 
> The header downloads during dependency resolution, these:
> 
> ---> Downloading header for xml-common to pack into transaction set.
> xml-common-0.6.3-17_11.at 100% |=========================| 5.4 kB    00:00
> ---> Package xml-common.noarch 0:0.6.3-17_11.at set to be updated
> 
> definitely cause a connection each, and as they're so small each 
> download completes quickly the remaining closing sockets will quickly 
> build up and trigger the block.

There is a setting in yum called keepalive which is supposed to reuse
the same connection for all downloads, e.g. only one connection to
dl.atrpms.net. Do you have this turned off by any chance? It defaults
to being turned on.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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