When Pacman is Slow

Set fast reflectors using reflector

1. sudo pacman -S reflector

2. sudo systemctl enable reflector

   2.1 sudo systemctl start reflector to use reflector for current login session optionally.

If it’s slow even with reflector

Just stop using reflector altogether lol

and actually pick some near servers from here: https://archlinux.org/mirrors/status/

and append $repo/os/$arch at the end of each line.

maybe with a help from https://archlinux.org/mirrorlist/

you can get something like this:

##
## Arch Linux repository mirrorlist
## Filtered by mirror score from mirror status page
## Generated on 2024-11-01
##

## Japan
#Server = https://repo.jing.rocks/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
## Japan
#Server = https://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/ArchLinux/$repo/os/$arch
## Japan
#Server = https://www.miraa.jp/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
## Japan
#Server = https://mirrors.cat.net/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
## Japan
#Server = https://jp.mirrors.cicku.me/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

now copy & paste this into /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

and done!