RANKMIRRORS(8) Pacman-contrib Manual RANKMIRRORS(8)

rankmirrors - rank pacman mirrors by their connection and opening speed.

rankmirrors [options] <mirrorfile | url>

rankmirrors will rank pacman mirrors by their connection and opening speed. Pacman mirror files are located in /etc/pacman.d/. It can also rank one mirror if the URL is provided.

-h, --help

Display syntax and command-line options.

-n <num>

Number of servers to output, 0 for all.

-m, --max-time <num>

Specify a ranking operation timeout, can be decimal number.

-p, --parallel

Run tests in parallel for all servers (may be inaccurate, depends on GNU parallel).

-r, --repo

Specify a repository name instead of guessing.

-t, --times

Only output mirrors and their response times.

-u, --url

Test a specific URL.

-v, --verbose

Be verbose in output.

-V, --version

Display version information.

-w, --working-only

Only output mirrors that respond within the timeout.

Bugs? You must be kidding; there are no bugs in this software. But if we happen to be wrong, file an issue with as much detail as possible at https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman-contrib/-/issues/new.

Current maintainers:

•Johannes Löthberg <johannes@kyriasis.com>
•Daniel M. Capella <polyzen@archlinux.org>

For additional contributors, use git shortlog -s on the pacman-contrib.git repository.

2025-12-11 Pacman-contrib 1.13.1