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from France the quickest to be updated is: http://slackware.uk/slackware/slackware64-current/

4 updates : 3 upgraded, 1 rebuilt

Code:

Fri Nov  5 22:49:19 UTC 2021

a/btrfs-progs-5.15-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.

a/hwdata-0.353-noarch-1.txz:  Upgraded.

kde/plasma-wayland-protocols-1.5.0-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.

xap/mozilla-firefox-91.3.0esr-x86_64-2.txz:  Rebuilt.

  Rebuilt with rust-1.54.0, which seems to produce a stable Firefox package.

  Looking at this page, it would seem that upstream is probably compiling

  the official package with rust-1.54.0:

  https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/writing-rust-code/update-policy.html

  Normally I'd be inclined to drop back on the version of Rust in the main

  tree, but rust-1.56.1 fixes a security issue (one that doesn't affect any

  crates used by Firefox), so that doesn't seem to be a good idea.

15 updates : 12 upgraded, 3 rebuilt

Code:

Sat Nov  6 20:24:12 UTC 2021

a/kernel-generic-5.15.1-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.

a/kernel-huge-5.15.1-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.

a/kernel-modules-5.15.1-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.

ap/ksh93-20211105_77827c5-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.

  Switched to ksh93u+m. Thanks to aikempshall and GazL.

d/kernel-headers-5.15.1-x86-1.txz:  Upgraded.

k/kernel-source-5.15.1-noarch-1.txz:  Upgraded.

l/libxml2-2.9.12-x86_64-4.txz:  Rebuilt.

  Patched to fix python3 unicode errors. Thanks to Daedra.

l/python-pycparser-2.21-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.

l/vte-0.66.1-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.

tcl/tcl-8.6.12-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.

tcl/tk-8.6.12-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.

xap/pan-0.148-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.

isolinux/initrd.img:  Rebuilt.

kernels/*:  Upgraded.

usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img:  Rebuilt.

Quote:

Originally Posted by nobodino (Post 6298646)

from France the quickest to be updated is: http://slackware.uk/slackware/slackware64-current/

didn't know thanks, a bit funny : ) the United Kingdom mirror is quicker than the 2 mirrors hosted in France.
God save the Queen,

Quote:

Originally Posted by _peter (Post 6299036)

didn't know thanks, a bit funny : ) the United Kingdom mirror is quicker than the 2 mirrors hosted in France.
God save the Queen,

Yes, but :

Code:

        87 MiBps        http://nephtys.lip6.fr/ftp/pub/linux/distributions/slackware/slackware64-current/

        46 MiBps        http://slackware.uk/slackware/slackware64-current/

Quote:

Originally Posted by marav (Post 6299058)

Yes, but :

Code:

        87 MiBps        http://nephtys.lip6.fr/ftp/pub/linux/distributions/slackware/slackware64-current/

        46 MiBps        http://slackware.uk/slackware/slackware64-current/

How did you get the bandwidth stats for the mirrors?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pixxt (Post 6299087)

How did you get the bandwidth stats for the mirrors?

A gentleman here on the forum (I don't remember who ... sorry) proposed a script based on this one :

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=251398

See Att.

root@xxxxx:~/scripts# ./*speed*
Testing http://slackware.uk/slackware/slackware64-current/ 7,7MiBps
Testing ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/ft...are64-current/ 5,3MiBps
Testing http://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/f...are64-current/ 5,6MiBps
Testing http://nephtys.lip6.fr/pub/linux/dis...are64-current/ 4,0MiBps
Testing ftp://mirrors.dotsrc.org/slackware/slackware64-current/ 5,3MiBps
Testing https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/slackware...are64-current/ 8,3MiBps
Testing ftp://mirror.nl.leaseweb.net/slackwa...are64-current/ 4,5MiBps
Testing http://mirror.nl.leaseweb.net/slackw...are64-current/ 7,7MiBps

I's not always the same speed, but uk mirrors are generally mirrored more quickly. For me, in south of France, uk.slackware has my preference for the stability of its speed on the long term.

@marav: 87 MiBps !! which internet provider? I've a fiber internet connection with 1 Gb/s speed.

Quote:

Originally Posted by nobodino (Post 6299101)

root@xxxxx:~/scripts# ./*speed*
...

I's not always the same speed, but uk mirrors are generally mirrored more quickly. For me, in south of France, uk.slackware has my preference for the stability of its speed on the long term.

@marav: 87 MiBps !! which internet provider? I've a fiber internet connection with 1 Gb/s speed.

Same here, Freebox - FTTH 1 Gb/s

The real question is :
Why you only have 7~8 MiBps with a 1 Gb/s fiber connection ?

Same test, with your list:

Code:

Results:

        34MiBps        http://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/

        32MiBps        http://slackware.uk/slackware/slackware64-current/

        31MiBps        http://mirror.nl.leaseweb.net/slackware/slackware64-current/

        24MiBps        https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/slackware/slackware64-current/

        22MiBps        ftp://mirror.nl.leaseweb.net/slackware/slackware64-current/

        22MiBps        ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/

        17MiBps        ftp://mirrors.dotsrc.org/slackware/slackware64-current/

        15MiBps        http://nephtys.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/slackware/slackware64-current/

Since it contains very useful informations
I Added source/installer/ChangeLog.txt to the script

Note:
There could be 24 hours of delay since it is not necessarily published at the same time (or before) as the main changelog

source/installer

Code:

Wed Nov  3 19:36:08 UTC 2021

  Added ntfs3.ko.xz module.

  SeTDOS: use FS type ntfs3 for NTFS partitions in /etc/fstab.

Quote:

Originally Posted by marav (Post 6299089)

A gentleman here on the forum (I don't remember who ... sorry) proposed a script based on this one ...

Jeremy Hansen, aka Bassmadrigal.

@marav, I'm connected directly to the box.
And my ethernet controller is:
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2400 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 10)

Quote:

Originally Posted by nobodino (Post 6299207)

@marav, I'm connected directly to the box.
And my ethernet controller is:
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2400 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 10)

anyway, you’re right
slackware.uk is probably the quickest
and provides a very good bandwidth

Quote:

Originally Posted by marav (Post 6299216)

anyway, you’re right
slackware.uk is probably the quickest
and provides a very good bandwidth

slackware.uk is on a gigabit connection and doesn't do traffic shaping or giving preference to any sort of user/mirror, so everyone gets the same slice of the pie :)

I just ran that speed test against the 16 US slackware64-current mirrors listed in /etc/slackpkg/mirrors. What surprised me was the 50% failure rate.

Code:

Testing ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/nv/ao2/lxmirror/ftp.slackware.com/slackware64-current/ Fail

Testing ftp://mirror.cs.princeton.edu/pub/mirrors/slackware/slackware64-current/  2.6MiBps

Testing ftp://mirrors.easynews.com/linux/slackware/slackware64-current/ Fail

Testing http://mirrors.easynews.com/linux/slackware/slackware64-current/ Fail

Testing ftp://mirrors.us.kernel.org/slackware/slackware64-current/ Fail

Testing http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/slackware/slackware64-current/  8.2MiBps

Testing ftp://mirrors.xmission.com/slackware/slackware64-current/  413KiBps

Testing http://mirrors.xmission.com/slackware/slackware64-current/  8.9MiBps

Testing https://mirror.slackbuilds.org/slackware/slackware64-current/  13MiBps

Testing http://slackware.cs.utah.edu/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/  1.5MiBps

Testing http://slackware.mirrors.pair.com/slackware64-current/ Fail

Testing ftp://slackware.mirrors.tds.net/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/ Fail

Testing http://slackware.mirrors.tds.net/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/  3.4MiBps

Testing http://spout.ussg.indiana.edu/linux/slackware/slackware64-current/  14MiBps

Testing ftp://teewurst.cc.columbia.edu/pub/linux/slackware/slackware64-current/ Fail

Testing http://teewurst.cc.columbia.edu/pub/linux/slackware/slackware64-current/ Fail

I increased the timeout from 5 seconds to 10. This yielded largely identical results. Sites swapped places on the leader board, but the 8 out of 16 URLs that came up empty in the first run also failed on the second run.

Here are the winners of round one:

Code:

        14MiBps        http://spout.ussg.indiana.edu/linux/slackware/slackware64-current/

        13MiBps        https://mirror.slackbuilds.org/slackware/slackware64-current/

        8.9MiBps      http://mirrors.xmission.com/slackware/slackware64-current/

        8.2MiBps      http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/slackware/slackware64-current/

        3.4MiBps      http://slackware.mirrors.tds.net/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/

        2.6MiBps      ftp://mirror.cs.princeton.edu/pub/mirrors/slackware/slackware64-current/

        1.5MiBps      http://slackware.cs.utah.edu/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/

        413KiBps      ftp://mirrors.xmission.com/slackware/slackware64-current/

So the suspicion is that we have a bunch of broken US mirrors. Clearly, the passage of that hard infrastructure bill in the House is timely. But to do anything useful with this information requires that I repeat the tests periodically, compare the mirror list with the one on https://mirrors.slackware.com/mirrorlist/ and eventually report my findings to the maintainers of those lists. So I guess I'll do that.