Why is freebsd-update so horrible slow?

[RW]

On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 12:11:28 -0500
Doug McIntyre wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 01:35:00PM +0100, Arthur Chance wrote:
> > This tweet from Colin Percival talks about the problem.
> > 
> > https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/1382491128537096193
> > 
> > TL;DR: changes to git caused a massive overload, the number of
> > mirrors has been increased to deal with it.  
> 
> 
> Although his status is on portupgrade, not freebsd-update.

On portsnap. 

The freebsd-update and portsnap clients are so similar internally I'd be
surprised if they don't share server-side infrastructure.