portupgrade time, xorg ports

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 01:54:04PM -0800, Jay O'Brien wrote:

> I ran portupgrade -a -N -vu -rR, and it tried several times 
> to fetch X11R6.8.1-src1.tar.gz, each time taking over an hour, 
> and when the file failed, it failed showing a checksum mismatch. 

> I tried it again today, and it was able to fetch the three 
> remaining files. SLOW. I have a DSL connection, and usually 
> see 1.5MB speeds or more. Two of the files came in at 6kBps, 
> one at 26 kBps. This Portupgrade session, including downloading 
> the files detailed below, took 3 hours and 38 minutes; 1.5 hours 
> was spent just downloading the three files.
> 
> >From the script file of the session:
> => X11R6.8.1-src(#).tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in 
> /usr/ports/distfiles/xorg.
> => Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/X11R6.8.1/tars/
> 
> files fetched and time for download:
> file                    size    end speed    time 
> X11R6.8.1-src1.tar.gz    29MB   6510 Bps     80 min
> X11R6.8.1-src6.tar.gz  3106kB   6298 Bps      8 min
> X11R6.8.1-src2.tar.gz  5672kB     26 kBps     4 min
> 
> I have two questions:
> 
> -Is this typical to see such slow download speeds

Sometimes; it's not unusual for a popular ftp site to be heavily
loaded.  There are various variables you can set to control fetching
from different sites; see the ports(7) manpage and the comments in
bsd.port.mk.

> and for the 
>  portupgrade process to take so much time? 

X is a large set of applications, so it's going to take a little while
to compile it all :-)

> -I didn't install xorg. Why are the 16 xorg ports present?

I don't understand what you're asking here.

Kris
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