Re: Very slow downloads when doing dist-upgrade.
Hi
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:27:54AM +0100, SL wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a number of VPSs which I need to upgrade to Wheezy. During the
> dist-upgrade step I'm getting very slow download speeds from debian.org (<10kB/
> s), which is causing the process to take a very long time. Is there anything I
> can do to speed things up? Could anyone suggest e.g. a mirror I could add to
> sources.list? (I'm in Europe).
If you have more than a few servers, it is really beneficial to use a
caching HTTP proxy (e.g. squid configured to cache big files) on your
local network ... Then you'll only have to download things once (usually)
hope this helps
--
Karl E. Jorgensen
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