On Mar 12, 2008, at 4:55 PM, William Siegrist wrote:
The rsync repo gets sluggish around 4-5am PDT every day due to server backups and maintenance. I'm actually going to try spreading out some of the load throughout the day to help... But right now, you can expect the selfupdate and syncs to take up to 10m. Normally on average they take 1-3m for me during the day.
I was thinking that the progress bar on the installer could be changed or some rsync verbose output added to make it not seem like a hang, but the performance is also an issue, and I am working on it.
Thanks -Bill
It's really funny how we get used to the way things work. The first modem I ever owned was used on an Apple IIe and had a speed of 300 baud, and never managed transfer a small (few kb) file without losing the connection. Transfers were usually a multi-hour ordeal with very poor results. Today I am fortunate to live in an area that has Fiber. I tried to get Residential FIOS but there was no way to get a fixed public IP, so I subscribed to Verizon Business FIOS 15/2 MBit/sec service and that has worked out very well. I've gotten used to receiving transfers from Apple that are sometimes as large as 90 MBytes, in what seems like a matter of seconds. I may be wrong but it just seems really fast. We as a whole seem to have lost all sense of perspective, such that if a file takes a few minutes to download we begin think the transfer has hung up. This is probably what happened, I should have gone to lunch and checked when I came back. There was no way from the Terminal to tell whether anything was happening. Something that may help others is perhaps a message "This may take a few minutes, come back in a while..." I see from your response, that I should have allowed at least 10 minutes. I began running into a number of other problems that forced me to force quit applications that continuously became non-responsive. I may be wrong, but I suspect that upgrading Leopard directly over Tiger may be the cause of some of the problems. Yesterday I completely re-formatted my primary drive, did a clean install of Leopard, and spent several hours downloading and installing the very latest versions of each application and 3rd party utility I own. After I read Ryan's comments on Darwin 8 vs. Darwin 9, I thought the smartest thing would be to re-format and install everything from scratch, not just MacPorts. Today I will try to do a clean install of MacPorts, and see how that goes. Thanks to all those who replied for the help... Bill Hernandez ms@mac-specialist.com