From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 6 09:39:27 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9BD0106564A for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2009 09:39:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from henrikes@tihlde.org) Received: from tihlde.org (colargol.tihlde.org [158.38.48.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61A708FC1C for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2009 09:39:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from henrikes@tihlde.org) Received: from trl57100.ka.hist.no ([158.38.57.100]) by tihlde.org with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1LK85P-0001p4-3h; Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:18:57 +0100 Message-ID: <496321E9.9090906@tihlde.org> Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:18:33 +0100 From: Henrik Schewe User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Bond References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 158.38.57.100 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: henrikes@tihlde.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4 (2008-01-01) on tihlde.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.3 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.4 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:33:36 +0200) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on tihlde.org) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-update painfully slow - slower than source code build of world and kernel X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:39:27 -0000 Hello! > Usually an update with FreeBSD-update is quite quick, but today and > yesterday it has just been to slow to use, after two days of trying - > I've still not completed a single upgrade. > This also goes for portsnap. Portsnap is also an excellent tool, but > the experience from using it could be much better. The european > portsnap mirror is actually slower, than the one in the US. I can only verify your experiences with both freebsd-update and the speed of the portsnap mirrors lately. -BR, Henrik Schewe