On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Daniel Bond wrote:
I'm not sure where to post this, I had trouble finding a suitable
mailing-list. Please point me in the right direction, if this is the wrong
place to post this message.
I think freebsd-ports would have been the place.
Yesterday I was struck by happiness, as I noticed 7.1-RELEASE was out on
ftp.freebsd.org - and decided to start off by upgrading one of my companies
development servers.
Usually an update with FreeBSD-update is quite quick, but today and yesterday
it has just been to slow to use, after two days of trying - I've still not
completed a single upgrade. The
server in question is connected to gigabit internet.
I think it is embarrassing that the binary update tool, is actually slower to
use than compiling the whole operating system and kernel - even on a slow
machine! The reason for this,
is not the tool it self, the tool is excellent - but there are no mirrors..
We need some mirrors, or such a great tool is not really usable at all
(except for the really patient).
This is a known issue that Colin sent out a message about to freebsd-ports
and freebsd-questions.
Basically there is a surge in in traffic right now due to the 7.1 release.
And there is another update machine on the way.
The message is included belov my sig.
/Chris
Hi all,
For the benefit of those of you who are noticing problems with portsnap
right
now: The release of FreeBSD 7.1 has resulted in a very large amount of
traffic
to update1.freebsd.org, which is hosted by the same box as
portsnap-master...
so the portsnap mirrors are having some trouble syncing right now. If you
find
that portsnap doesn't work, please be patient -- once the flood of people
upgrading systems to 7.1-RELEASE has subsided things should get back to
normal.
(Before people ask: update2.freebsd.org is going to exist soon. No, I'm
not looking for more mirrors right now.)
--
Colin Percival
Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve
Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly
paranoid
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