Limbo Repository Slow?

Some of you may have noticed that downloads from the sabayonlinux.org domain via entropy have  ground to a very slow 20-100kbps, it seems to be because alot more of you are using our rolling/testing repository, “limbo”, than expected which has shot our bandwidth through the roof and being hit with thousands of hits on the main sabayon servers.

There is a speed limit on the main server for entropy which was put in place by Lxnay to force people to use the mirrors and not stress the main Sabayon infrastructure, so any issues go to the boss!

Never fear, however as Limbo uses the extensive Entropy mirror network and all you have todo to get the usual blasingly fast(tm) speeds you expect is to let Entropy know that there is a mirror it can use instead.

How? Simply change your limbo entry in /etc/entropy/repositories.conf to read like the below

#Limbo
repository|sabayon-limbo|Sabayon Linux Limbo Repository|http://svn.sabayonlinux.org/entropy|http://svn.sabayonlinux.org/entropy#bz2
repository|sabayon-limbo|Sabayon Linux Limbo Repository|http://na.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/sabayonlinux/entropy/|

And then continue as normal.

As you can it simply adds the garr.it mirror (which is the default primary mirror) but feel free to pick another.

Just thought I’d let you know so hopefully we can reduce some of the load on svn.sabayonlinux.org and speed things up for sabayon users who are further away for Europe by using a local mirror. A list of mirrors can be found on the mirrors page.

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