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Date:      Wed, 14 Apr 2021 10:46:40 +0100
From:      Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why is freebsd-update so horrible slow?
Message-ID:  <20210414104640.344f3345bfa5fb7e6790253e@sohara.org>
In-Reply-To: <2371411618364379@vla3-7c930ca38d8d.qloud-c.yandex.net>
References:  <2371411618364379@vla3-7c930ca38d8d.qloud-c.yandex.net>

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On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 02:39:39 +0100
Erik Lauritsen <eriklauritsen@yandex.com> 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!

	Overloaded network segment, or overloaded servers. I'd bet on the
latter.

> It's painful. It's like the 90th with 56k modems and I am on a gigabit
> wire.

	You should have tried downloading Linux 1.0 any time in the week
after the announcement I saw "1 byte(s) per second" and gave up - that
release pretty much DDOS'd Finland.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>



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