Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2020 12:23:15 +0200 From: Per Hedeland <per@hedeland.org> To: Tomasz CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info>, Martin Hanson <greencoppermine@yandex.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg mirrors extremely slow, why not use the ftp mirrors? Message-ID: <9e55d4bb-921a-ba19-3707-4431597ef79c@hedeland.org> In-Reply-To: <CAFYkXjmSUHihg=ea03AaU8HYt_ssX9fBY7Pt5%2BL4V0HfRPBAjA@mail.gmail.com> References: <6094091586626901@vla1-a1bfe7298e26.qloud-c.yandex.net> <CAFYkXjmSUHihg=ea03AaU8HYt_ssX9fBY7Pt5%2BL4V0HfRPBAjA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2020-04-11 22:41, Tomasz CEDRO wrote: > On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 7:42 PM Martin Hanson wrote: >> I'm on a gigabit connection in EU, using the "pkg0.bme.freebsd.org" is horrible: > > +1 on this one :-( Compared to Linux repos where you can fetch really > large amount of packages in a seconds we are really behind :-( I can > see some improvement in speed recently but its still too slow.. +1 on the slowness, but not on recent improvement - depending on the meaning of "recent", I rather think the *slowness* is recent. In all the years that I've been using the package repositories, I've never considered it particularly slow - until I had reason to install a few packages this last week, seeing speeds around 100 kB/s like Martin reported or worse. My previous significant use was probably in early January when I upgraded several hosts to 12.1-RELEASE, installing hundreds of packages in the process - and it was "reasonably fast" AFAIR. FWIW, I'm also i EU (Sweden), but for some reason end up fetching from pkg0.nyi.freebsd.org - my connection is 250 MBit down / 100 MBit up. --Per
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