Why is freebsd-update so horrible slow?

[Arthur Chance]

On 14/04/2021 02:39, Erik Lauritsen wrote:
> I have been setting here for about 6 hours waiting for an upgrade
> from 12.2 to 13 and freebsd-update is only half way through getting
> all the patches!
> 
> It's painful. It's like the 90th with 56k modems and I am on a
> gigabit wire.
> 
> Then I did a search and this has apparently been an issue for several
> years, it has even been filed as a bug.
> 
> Anyway, I have cancelled the upgrade. If it's going to take this
> long, I am not going to upgrade this, but will most likely replace it
> with another OS.

This tweet from Colin Percival talks about the problem.

https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/1382491128537096193

TL;DR: changes to git caused a massive overload, the number of mirrors
has been increased to deal with it.

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