Extremly slow plugin installs using jenkins-plugin-cli

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Plugin installs have been really slow that last couple days. Installing a single plugin can take up to 5 mins. I’m in India.

Step 4/9 : RUN jenkins-plugin-cli --plugins workflow-aggregator
 ---> Running in 9637b0a76ba9
Nov 03, 2022 9:19:31 AM org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RetryExec execute
INFO: I/O exception (org.apache.http.NoHttpResponseException) caught when processing request to {s}->https://updates.jenkins.io:443: The target server failed to respond
Nov 03, 2022 9:19:31 AM org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RetryExec execute
INFO: Retrying request to {s}->https://updates.jenkins.io:443
Nov 03, 2022 9:20:26 AM org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RetryExec execute
INFO: I/O exception (org.apache.http.NoHttpResponseException) caught when processing request to {s}->https://updates.jenkins.io:443: The target server failed to respond
Nov 03, 2022 9:20:26 AM org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RetryExec execute
INFO: Retrying request to {s}->https://updates.jenkins.io:443
Nov 03, 2022 9:23:23 AM org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RetryExec execute
INFO: I/O exception (org.apache.http.NoHttpResponseException) caught when processing request to {s}->https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn:443: The target server failed to respond
Nov 03, 2022 9:23:23 AM org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RetryExec execute
INFO: Retrying request to {s}->https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn:443
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Sadly we are limited to the mirrors that are donated. tsinghua is considered the closest to india.

We’ve had a couple companies offer to host, but then not reply to our followup emails.

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I won’t lie, this is making it completely unusable =/

I feel like the logic somewhere could be improved. It’s not just slow download speeds, it seems like it fails to download certain plugins and then loops forever.

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I hear you, and I know its very frustrating, but the current options are pretty limited.

We are using a tool called mirrorbits to decide where to redirect people to. It uses geoip data to decide the closest mirror to you. You can append ?mirrorstats to the download links to get more information - ex Mirrorstats

We have disabled mirrors in the past when they are not working, but a single complaint about a host wouldn’t be enough to disable them. We’d need confirmation that they are the problem, and multiple users reporting issues. Though that would be the decision of the infra team. You could open a helpdesk ticket to get started though.

Really what we need is more mirrors. At time of writing, based on the above link, the university has already donated 6TB of bandwidth since 00:00 GMT, and thats daily. Jenkins open source project doesn’t have the kind of people nor money to run all the bandwidth for distributing everything by itself and depends heavily on infra donations (usually money or hardware).

The fact that in your original message updates.jenkins.io is the one not responding, before it even redirects, makes me think it might be something to do with your environment, maybe a missing proxy config or something.