Description:

When installing on a fresh install, and running a pacman -Syu for the first time on a wired network, any ftp mirror runs extremely slow, while http runs at normal speed. This problem disappeared once I installed xorg and kde and ran pacman from within kde.

Note: I did not have this problem with pacman v2, and do not have thi s problem within kde (running knetworkmanager).


Additional info:

Debug output from first -Syu (this took over 5 minutes):

Targets: kernel-headers-2.6.21.1-1 glibc-2.6-2 attr-2.4.38-1 acl-2.2.44-1
binutils-2.17-4 cpio-2.8-1 dialog-1.1_20070514-2 dmapi-2.2.8-1
ed-0.5-3 filesystem-0.8-9 fakeroot-1.7.1-2 file-4.21-1
findutils-4.2.31-1 gcc-4.2.0-2 hwdetect-0.8-8 klibc-udev-112-1
mkinitcpio-0.5.15-1 kernel26-2.6.21.5-1 less-403-1 lvm2-2.02.26-1
man-1.6e-2 man-pages-2.54-1 mdadm-2.6.2-1 popt-1.10.6-1
tar-1.17-1 udev-112-1 wpa_supplicant-0.5.8-1 xfsprogs-2.8.21-1
xfsdump-2.2.45-1

Total Package Size: 56.82 MB

:: Retrieving packages from current...
debug: file path: '/current/os/i686/kernel-headers-2.6.21.1-1.pkg.tar.gz'
debug: using 'kernel-headers' for download progress
debug: connected to ftp.archlinux.org successfully
debug: file path: '/current/os/i686/glibc-2.6-2.pkg.tar.gz'
debug: using 'glibc' for download progress
debug: unregistering database 'local'
debug: freeing package cache for repository 'local'
debug: closing database 'local'
debug: removing DB current, 3 remaining...
debug: unregistering database 'current'
debug: freeing package cache for repository 'current'
debug: closing database 'current'
debug: removing DB extra, 2 remaining...
debug: unregistering database 'extra'
debug: freeing package cache for repository 'extra'
debug: closing database 'extra'
debug: removing DB community, 1 remaining...
debug: unregistering database 'community'
debug: freeing package cache for repository 'community'
debug: closing database 'community'


Steps to reproduce:

Install a fresh install of any Arch release.
Install/upgrade libdownload.
Run pacman -Syu on a FTP mirror.