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Date:      Fri, 24 Dec 2004 14:12:49 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Jay O'Brien <jayobrien@att.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD - questions <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: portupgrade time, xorg ports
Message-ID:  <20041224221249.GA59227@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <41CC8FFC.2030009@att.net>
References:  <41CC8FFC.2030009@att.net>

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On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 01:54:04PM -0800, Jay O'Brien wrote:

> I ran portupgrade -a -N -vu -rR, and it tried several times=20
> to fetch X11R6.8.1-src1.tar.gz, each time taking over an hour,=20
> and when the file failed, it failed showing a checksum mismatch.=20

> I tried it again today, and it was able to fetch the three=20
> remaining files. SLOW. I have a DSL connection, and usually=20
> see 1.5MB speeds or more. Two of the files came in at 6kBps,=20
> one at 26 kBps. This Portupgrade session, including downloading=20
> the files detailed below, took 3 hours and 38 minutes; 1.5 hours=20
> was spent just downloading the three files.
>=20
> >From the script file of the session:
> =3D> X11R6.8.1-src(#).tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in=20
> /usr/ports/distfiles/xorg.
> =3D> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/X11R6.8.1/tars/
>=20
> files fetched and time for download:
> file                    size    end speed    time=20
> X11R6.8.1-src1.tar.gz    29MB   6510 Bps     80 min
> X11R6.8.1-src6.tar.gz  3106kB   6298 Bps      8 min
> X11R6.8.1-src2.tar.gz  5672kB     26 kBps     4 min
>=20
> I have two questions:
>=20
> -Is this typical to see such slow download speeds

Sometimes; it's not unusual for a popular ftp site to be heavily
loaded.  There are various variables you can set to control fetching
from different sites; see the ports(7) manpage and the comments in
bsd.port.mk.

> and for the=20
>  portupgrade process to take so much time?=20

X is a large set of applications, so it's going to take a little while
to compile it all :-)

> -I didn't install xorg. Why are the 16 xorg ports present?

I don't understand what you're asking here.

Kris
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