Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 13:35:00 +0100 From: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is freebsd-update so horrible slow? Message-ID: <78283e5d-f46f-2e21-7ccb-ce661531af06@qeng-ho.org> In-Reply-To: <2371411618364379@vla3-7c930ca38d8d.qloud-c.yandex.net> References: <2371411618364379@vla3-7c930ca38d8d.qloud-c.yandex.net>
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On 14/04/2021 02:39, Erik Lauritsen wrote: > I have been setting here for about 6 hours waiting for an upgrade > from 12.2 to 13 and freebsd-update is only half way through getting > all the patches! > > It's painful. It's like the 90th with 56k modems and I am on a > gigabit wire. > > Then I did a search and this has apparently been an issue for several > years, it has even been filed as a bug. > > Anyway, I have cancelled the upgrade. If it's going to take this > long, I am not going to upgrade this, but will most likely replace it > with another OS. This tweet from Colin Percival talks about the problem. https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/1382491128537096193 TL;DR: changes to git caused a massive overload, the number of mirrors has been increased to deal with it. -- The number of people predicting the demise of Moore's Law doubles every 18 months.
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