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Could you include what you're currently using for the various reflector command-line switches? (e.g. --age --protocol --sort ...)
Here's whats in
/etc/xdg/reflector/reflector.conf
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.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)
The systemd service is enabled, and when I did actually apply all these in the command line manually too before enabling the service.
ah. now armed with that extra information, i can only profess cluelessness. perhaps a "--verbose" option, well watched, would reveal something (maybe) good luck!
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.