On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 01:54:04PM -0800, Jay O'Brien wrote: > I ran portupgrade -a -N -vu -rR, and it tried several times > to fetch X11R6.8.1-src1.tar.gz, each time taking over an hour, > and when the file failed, it failed showing a checksum mismatch.
> I tried it again today, and it was able to fetch the three > remaining files. SLOW. I have a DSL connection, and usually > see 1.5MB speeds or more. Two of the files came in at 6kBps, > one at 26 kBps. This Portupgrade session, including downloading > the files detailed below, took 3 hours and 38 minutes; 1.5 hours > was spent just downloading the three files. > > >From the script file of the session: > => X11R6.8.1-src(#).tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in > /usr/ports/distfiles/xorg. > => Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/X11R6.8.1/tars/ > > files fetched and time for download: > file size end speed time > X11R6.8.1-src1.tar.gz 29MB 6510 Bps 80 min > X11R6.8.1-src6.tar.gz 3106kB 6298 Bps 8 min > X11R6.8.1-src2.tar.gz 5672kB 26 kBps 4 min > > I have two questions: > > -Is this typical to see such slow download speeds Sometimes; it's not unusual for a popular ftp site to be heavily loaded. There are various variables you can set to control fetching from different sites; see the ports(7) manpage and the comments in bsd.port.mk. > and for the > portupgrade process to take so much time? X is a large set of applications, so it's going to take a little while to compile it all :-) > -I didn't install xorg. Why are the 16 xorg ports present? I don't understand what you're asking here. Kris
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