Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 07:13:11 +0000 From: Daniel Stevenson <daniel@dstev.net> To: Doug McIntyre <merlyn@geeks.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is freebsd-update so horrible slow? Message-ID: <YQ7wZsyS94Q0Z1PUXJsH1Gw94M1kPcLboAi_r0PeljiG7QaSa75LBVAybk3CWahEcxAVVuWdSFDEoo5_lYAAJDYswDayuCiNBXJ5UYE8HiU=@dstev.net> In-Reply-To: <YHhzwLrdHGljoNKz@geeks.org> References: <2371411618364379@vla3-7c930ca38d8d.qloud-c.yandex.net> <78283e5d-f46f-2e21-7ccb-ce661531af06@qeng-ho.org> <YHhzwLrdHGljoNKz@geeks.org>
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On Thursday, April 15th, 2021 at 12:11, Doug McIntyre <merlyn@geeks.org> wr= ote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 01:35:00PM +0100, Arthur Chance wrote: > > 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. > > Although his status is on portupgrade, not freebsd-update. > > Is there any way for me to build my own update server locally? I've > tried web caching the data, but I have to be able to get all the data fir= st.. > (What the handbook mentions IIRC) > > Fetching 3299 files... ....10....20....30....40....50....60....70....80..= ..90....100....110....120.. > ..130....140....150....160....170 gunzip: (stdin): unexpected end of file > ae47b8b528bdf1369c7779d0dd453364922c77f3993fd147486b952fdbe91634 has inco= rrect hash. > > At various points along the fetch on each try. There's an article about it on docs.freebsd.org: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/freebsd-update-server/ It's a few years old, but it might still be useful. -- Daniel Stevenson
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