Hello, We released SL 5.3 yesterday, and now ftp.scientificlinux.org is running a little slow. So it is possible that some people are going to get time-out's when they do yum updates. I apologize, but at the moment, there isn't alot I can do but wait for the wave to pass over. If you are wondering about the load on the machine (this is a dual opteron machine, just one core per processor) ftp.scientificlinux.org Load: 1550 (fluxuating between 1500 and 1600) http connections: 258 ftp connections: 3166 rsync connections: 15 The one thing that has me concerned is the rsync connections. People really should change their scripts to move to rsync.scientificlinux.org instead of ftp.scientificlinux.org. rsync.scientificlinux.org has an IP address of 131.225.110.33 It only has 14 current rsync connections, and from the network graphs, it is getting alot more throughput simply because it isn't bogged down. rsync.scientificlinux.org Load: 2 rsync connections: 14 Thanks Troy -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/LCSI/CSI LMSS Group __________________________________________________