Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 01:37:05 +0200 From: hw <hw@adminart.net> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dead slow update servers Message-ID: <87r26uhns9.fsf@toy.adminart.net> In-Reply-To: <20190712193831.fee9ee60.freebsd@edvax.de> (Polytropon's message of "Fri, 12 Jul 2019 19:38:31 %2B0200") References: <87sgrbi3qg.fsf@toy.adminart.net> <20190712193831.fee9ee60.freebsd@edvax.de>
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Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> writes: > On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 19:04:23 +0200, hw wrote: >> Hi, >> >> are you guys seriously expecting users to download packages they want to >> install at speeds around 25kb/s? I'm already annoyed about them being >> painfully slow when downloads are 1000 times faster than that. > > I've just tested with unaltered default settings, and I get > varying speeds of 1 - 1.5 MB/s. A whole desktop system update > (download, extraction, installation) didn't require more than > 15 minutes. > > However, a download speed of 25 kB/s definitely looks like > something is wrong... It's what I got, and there don't seem to be a lot of servers, and none of the ones I tried was any different. The download speed was jumping about from 8--300 at the extremes and more like 25 on average. >> Unless there is a solution to this problem, I will probably give up on >> trying out freebsd right away because usage in production even on my >> servers at home, let alone at work, simply won't be feasible. > > Before you can check for a solution to a problem, you need to > identify the actual problem. Is it within your network, or is > some server you're downloading from too slow? This should be > easy to find out if you provide some information, for example, > which mirror you're using, the exact command you use to update, > and so on. Other downloads were not affected; I tried the default update... and update<1..4>... servers; I used 'pkg install emacs-nox'. That same command showed reasonable download speeds with Trueos, which I tried afterwards. It probably uses different servers, like pkg.trueos.org. > Also keep in mind that if you're performing your update at the > same time many other users are doing it, the individual speed > will of course go down. This wasn't an update but a new installation made today. Once installed, I wanted to add stuff I usually use and see how far I would get with installing a web server and maybe a database ... BTW, how come that lower version numbers apparently give you more recent software, like 11.x being ahead of 12.x? --
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