10.04 upgrade

[Nigel Ridley]

On 05/01/2010 05:29 PM, Billie Erin Walsh wrote:
> On 04/30/2010 11:49 PM, Nigel Ridley wrote:
>> On 04/30/2010 08:19 AM, Nigel Ridley wrote:
>>
>>> Any of you guys done the upgrade yet from 9.10 yet?
>>> Any problems or a no-brainer?
>>>
>>> I think I shall wait a bit as this is my main production box.
>>>
>>> Nigel
>>>
>>>
>> A couple of questions:
>>
>> How long did the upgrade from 9.10 take approx ?
>> And was there any problems with non-standard repo app installs?
>>
>> Nigel
>>
>>
>
> I started my upgrade last night/this morning at about midnight. The
> system rebooted somewhere a bit after nine this morning. It was just
> finishing downloading files a little after six when I got up. Download
> speed when first started was somewhere around 56kbs and finished up
> somewhere around 35kbs. I don't know if it was server load or just slow
> servers. We have a 1.5meg both ways connection so I'm relatively sure
> the slow speed wasn't on our end.
>

I'm doing the upgrade now it it is soooooo slow -- it varies from about 8 - 15kbs :-(
I did a dist-upgrade before deciding to do the upgrade and it was downloading at around 1.040kbs.
It must be the servers being hammered....