Kris Kennaway wrote: > 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. >
Wow. And after I decode that somehow I have to know an alternate site. It appeared to me that as it was fetching from x.org (see above) that the ftp site was not something I could change. 6500 Bps is much slower than an ancient dialup connection; a big waste of time, it appeared, as I am not using X at all. > >>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. In my install of FreeBSD I did not select any flavor of X at all, and I would like to learn why it was installed "by default". > > Kris Thanks for your answer, it has pointed me at more things I didn't know were there that I have to learn about. Jay _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
