Preupgrade is slow

[W.H. Kalpa Pathum]

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Patrick Bartek <bartek047 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- On Sat, 5/29/10, W.H. Kalpa Pathum <callkalpa at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to upgrade F12 to F13 and I'm using
>> preupgrade-cli. Al
>> though my internet connection is capable to transfer around
>> 50kB/s,
>> the preupgrade downloads files with around 20kB/s. Further
>> it hangs a
>> long times after a file is downloaded to begin the next
>> file
>> downloading. It's not packages but the files prior to that
>> like
>>
>> [snip]
>
> The slowness (and stalls) is most likely due to the servers being overloaded by tens of thousands of users like you trying to preupgrade and upgrading on line.  Be patient.  Start your preupgrade before you go to bed, and when you get up in the morning it should be finished.  Or just wait a month until the rush is over.

Thanks. I did as you instructed and the next day when I got up it has
downloaded all the files and asked me to reboot.
Now on F13 :-)
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W.H.Kalpa Pathum
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