Re: How long to wait for "freebsd-update install"?

From: Edward Sanford Sutton, III <mirror176_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2024 19:20:52 UTC 
On 7/20/24 09:56, D'Arcy Cain wrote:
> I am upgrading from 13.0 to 14.1.  I ran the upgrade and then install. I 
> then rebooted and ran the install again as instructed.  It got to the 
> "Installing updates" part and has been sitting there for almost 1½ 
> hours.  Is that reasonable?  What's a normal range of wait times on a 
> reasonably powerful server?

   I recall hearing of users waiting hour"s" for freebsd-update to take 
them to 14.0 when it came out; could provide helpful reading material 
for your current status while you (continue to) wait until the update 
finishes. I don't know if there are any sysctls to adjust or other 
changes to make to accelerate the current update.
   It seems worst with FreeBSD going through a major update + zfs. 13 
has also had a rough set of performance issues appear and good 
improvements result from solving them so an update to 13.4 then to 14.x 
as two separate steps would have likely helped performance.

> Cheers.
>