Why is freebsd-update so horrible slow?

[Doug Hardie]

> On 14 April 2021, at 02:49, Jacques Foucry <jacques+freebsd at foucry.net> wrote:
> 
> Le mercredi 14 avr. 2021 à 10:37:37 (+0200), Isak Holmström via freebsd-questions à écrit:
>> 
>> 
>>> 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.
> 
> 
> About 1 hour for me too.
> -- 

I updated 5 machines yesterday after receiving the announcement.  Three of them took about 5 minutes.  One took about an hour, and the last about 3 hours.  I didn't keep track of which server was used, but I believe the slowest was on server 4.  Also, the time required was dependent on the need to update the source.  The number of update files was more than about 5 times if source had to be updated.  The fastest updates were for the machines that were at 13.0-RC5.  The slower were for those on 12.x except for the the last one which did not update source.

-- Doug