From: chris on 17 Nov 2008 03:54 chris wrote: > Chris Whelan wrote: >> On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:17:37 +0000, chris wrote: >> >>> This month's Linux format comes with the latest version of Mandriva and >>> I must say I'm extremely impressed! >>> >>> The only downside I found was that the package manager was crushingly >>> slow. Sometimes it showed a download speed of ~1kbps, but most of the >>> time I just thought it had died. I'm considering it as a replacement for >>> my Mepis install, but not until this is resolved. Does anyone have any >>> ideas why it would be so slow? BTW web browsing and iplayer viewing ran >>> smoothly, so it's not a connection issue. TIA >>> >>> Chris >> Nope, just installed it and getting between 100 & 650 from the package >> manager. > > OK. I will have to investigate. Thanks for checking :) Right. It seems to have been a one off, as over the weekend the package manager speed was much better. |