pkg install taking its sweet time

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Sun, Dec 06, 2015 at 10:56:05AM -0600, Zeb McCorkle wrote:
> I'm not sure if it's supposed to work like this, but when I run pkg install
> <insert any package here> it:
> 
> 
>    1. takes a very long time to update the repository catalogue
>    2. pauses for 15-45 seconds between fetching each file
> 
> At least the download speeds are good (saturating my Internet connection),
> but it's very annoying having pauses all of the time. This has been
> happening since I first installed FreeBSD yesterday.
> 
> While I was writing this email, 5 packages had downloaded.

Can you provide more information about your hardware, sounds like your disk
access is very slow.

Best regards,
Bapt
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