Why is freebsd-update so horrible slow?

[Isak Holmström]

> 14 apr. 2021 kl. 10:25 skrev X Guest <me at xguest.net>:
> 
> maybe you have slow network connection to the update servers.
> you can give a try on checking the connection such as ping and traceroute.

It might be overloaded servers as well. Maybe try in a day or two. But 6 hours, that’s long. For me only about an hour.

/Isak



> 
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2021, at 9:39 AM, Erik Lauritsen wrote:
>> I have been setting here for about 6 hours waiting for an upgrade from 12.2 to 13 and freebsd-update is only half way through getting all the patches!
>> 
>> It's painful. It's like the 90th with 56k modems and I am on a gigabit wire.
>> 
>> Then I did a search and this has apparently been an issue for several years, it has even been filed as a bug.
>> 
>> Anyway, I have cancelled the upgrade. If it's going to take this long, I am not going to upgrade this, but will most likely replace it with another OS.
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