[Yum-devel] [PATCH] Add "timedhosts" info from the fastestmirror plugin. BZ 904622

James Antill james at fedoraproject.org
Fri Feb 1 19:36:26 UTC 2013


On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 15:57 +0100, Zdenek Pavlas wrote:
> Host profiling in urlgrabber is more accurate, but these timings
> are indeed useful and can help in some cases.  E.g. fastestmirror
> very efficiently (in parallel) detects dead mirrors.

 I kind of assumed that we'd obsolete fastestmirror soonish, do you
think it's worth keeping it around?
 If it's just the connect() profiling that might be useful ... is there
anyway we could work that into the current urlgrabber code? Maybe after
we have 2 downloads going we could start doing a bunch of head requests
to find+drop dead servers?
 Esp. of note though is that the connect() hack in fastestmirror doesn't
take into account the private flag in metalink, and doesn't work with
proxies. So not shipping it in el7 would be nice, and while we shipped
it in el6 it was in "optional".



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