I used to pick out mirrors manually and had servers very close to me, but I recently started using reflector to automate the process, but the mirrors it chooses is absolute dogshit and gives me really slow speeds.

What am I doing wrong?

  • theophrastus@vlemmy.net
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    1 year ago

    Could you include what you’re currently using for the various reflector command-line switches? (e.g. --age --protocol --sort …)

    • radicalpikachu@vlemmy.netOP
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      1 year ago

      Here’s whats in /etc/xdg/reflector/reflector.conf

      
      # Reflector configuration file for the systemd service.
      #
      # Empty lines and lines beginning with "#" are ignored.  All other lines should
      # contain valid reflector command-line arguments. The lines are parsed with
      # Python's shlex modules so standard shell syntax should work. All arguments are
      # collected into a single argument list.
      #
      # See "reflector --help" for details.
      
      # Recommended Options
      
      # Set the output path where the mirrorlist will be saved (--save).
      --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
      
      # Select the transfer protocol (--protocol).
      --protocol https
      
      # Select the country (--country).
      # Consult the list of available countries with "reflector --list-countries" and
      # select the countries nearest to you or the ones that you trust. For example:
      --country Bangladesh,India
      
      # Use only the  most recently synchronized mirrors (--latest).
      --latest 5
      
      # Sort the mirrors by synchronization time (--sort).
      --sort age
      
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        1 year ago

        In my reflector.conf, I have --score 5 instead of --latest 5. I don’t know how much this actually improves anything, but surely selecting by score is better than just using the most recently updated mirrors.

      • theophrastus@vlemmy.net
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        1 year ago

        i believe that is what will be used by reflector if it is enabled/started as a systemd service. but, i think, that’ll not be used if you’re just calling it on the command-line. in that latter case, i think you must supply (those) command-line switches on …the command-line. (maybe)

        • radicalpikachu@vlemmy.netOP
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          1 year ago

          The systemd service is enabled, and when I did actually apply all these in the command line manually too before enabling the service.

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            1 year ago

            ah. now armed with that extra information, i can only profess cluelessness. perhaps a “–verbose” option, well watched, would reveal something (maybe) good luck!

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        1 year ago

        Been a while since I mucked with reflector, but you don’t seem to be prioritizing faster mirrors whatsoever. Try --sort rate instead. If that’s not fast enough I’d also increase your --latest up to maybe 15 so that you have higher odds of a fast mirror being in the group of just-updated mirrors.