Disable yum fastestmirror plugin on CentOS

Disable yum fastestmirror plugin on CentOS

fastestmirror.confThe fastestmirror plugin may be useful at some points, but it can be a pain in the ass at others. For example, I tried updating my CentOS installation today and because of the mirror caching it was downloading the updates at 30K/s. After disabling the plugin the speed from picking a different mirror jumped to 3MB/s.

To temporarily disable the plugin, add –disableplugin=fastestmirror to your yum command line. For example yum update –disableplugin=fastestmirror

To permanently disable the plugin, edit /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/fastestmirror.conf and change enabled=1 to enabled=0

 

5 Comments

  1. yay that worked; but now I get – Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: epel. Please verify its path and try again
    solutions??

    napros

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