Re: freebsd-update and speed

[Stefan Esser]

Am 16.04.21 um 10:17 schrieb Ferdinand Goldmann:

On Thu, 15 Apr 2021, Rainer Duffner wrote:

It’s OK-ish most of the time here (CH).

It does *NOT* work through a proxy, due to the use of pipelined http-requests.

What’s your internet-connection?

The 10Gbit uplink of my university, directly connected to the internet,

not

behind a proxy. I don't think that's the problem. When update3 was still online
I'd always use that and updates were really fast back then.

Now that update3 is gone all update servers seem to be in the US or Australia.

After waiting for nearly one hour:


Applying patches... done.
Fetching 9628 files... gunzip: (stdin): unexpected end of file


This is getting kind of tiresome. :(

..8530....8540....8550....8560....8570....8580....8590....8600....8610....8620....8630....8640....8650....8660....8670....8680....8690....8700.... done. 0a4626107f3700cf5f87bd9c123bf427bd5a8561aadc2eca1d1605465c090935 has incorrect hash.

There was a discussion about adding another mirror in Europe, but
it was decided that a suitable system already existed.

Not sure whether this mirror actually has been provided, but I do
remember that it should have been a well connected system (maybe in
NL?) that has been selected to perform all FreeBSD mirror services
for users in Europe with little latency and high throughput.

Regards, STefan

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