Pkg upgrade question

[Jason Pope]

All,

I fixed my issue with the "pkg" command. I forgot that I get an IPv6
allocation and I have seen that cause slowdowns on other machines due to
DNS difficulties. So, I edited my /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf file and
un-commented the IP_VERSION line and changed it from 0 to 4, which forces
"pkg" to only use IPv4; it looks like this:

IP_VERSION = 4


It is VERY fast on the updates now!

Jason K Pope
214.566.8527
boards188 at gmail.com

Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his
friends.
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On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 5:16 PM, Jason Pope <boards188 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you for the quick response.
>
> No, I don't believe other connections take this long to establish. At
> least navigating between websites works fine and appears to be very
> responsive.
>
> I just installed a new package with "sudo pkg install wget"; it takes
> several minutes for the "Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue..." to
> complete. I then get the response, "Proceed with this action? [y/N]:". I
> answer "y" and it again takes right at 75 seconds for the download to begin.
>
> Jason K Pope
> 214.566.8527 <(214)%20566-8527>
> boards188 at gmail.com
>
> Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his
> friends.
>
> On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 3:54 PM, Ben Woods <woodsb02 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 24 Sep 2017 at 10:48 pm, Jason Pope <boards188 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I am new to FreeBSD (obviously) and have FreeBSD 11.1 installed as a VM
>>> guest inside VirtualBox running on Mac OSX. I am using bridged mode for
>>> networking. Network speed is very good.
>>>
>>> My problem is when I upgrade packages. I run "sudo pkg update", then run
>>> "sudo pkg upgrade". The new packages download very fast, 400 to 800 kB/s,
>>> but there is always ~75 seconds between the ending of one package and the
>>> starting of the next package. Is that normal?
>>>
>>> I am currently updating 106 packages, so it will require 2 hours of time
>>> between package downloads in addition to the time to download the
>>> packages.
>>>
>>> Hi Jason,
>>
>> No, this is not normal, but I have never seen it before.
>>
>> Note that pkg creates a new connection for each package it downloads, so
>> there is normally a couple of seconds to negotiate it, but not 75secs.
>>
>> Do other internet connections from the VM take this long to establish
>> also?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ben
>> --
>>
>> --
>> From: Benjamin Woods
>> woodsb02 at gmail.com
>>
>
>