Incredibly slow mirror site

[Rainer Alves]

Mike Jakubik wrote:
> The problem i think is that many ports with multiple mirrors will use 
> mirrors from 3rd world countries first, and the mirrors with real 
> bandwidth will always be last on the list. Can anyone explain to me why 
> that is? Doesn't it make more sense to try the fastest one first?

Perhaps you should try using MASTER_SORT_REGEX and setting some mirror 
priorities... here's a good example (mirrors in my country are given top 
priority, followed by *.edu which usually have near infinite 
bandwidth... put this in /etc/make.conf):

MASTER_SORT_REGEX?=^file: \
         ://ftp.?\.br\.FreeBSD\.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/ \
         mesh \
         ://[^/]*\.br[./] \
         ://ufpr\.dl\.sourceforge\.net/ \
         ://[^/]*\.edu[./]

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Rainer Alves