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 Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2025 7:04 pm Post subject: How long does it take to do a dist-upgrade on your distro? |
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I'm curious ..... I've been using sidux for a while now and it seems to take an awful long time to upgrade it, especially since it's a rolling upgrade, rather than a timed (every xxx months, years etc.) upgrade.
What I'd like is that you tell us which distro you use, how long (hours/minutes) it takes, your processor speed, RAM and your last upgraded kernel ..... this isn't a contest as to who is upgraded to the latest/greatest, it's just for info as to which distro/kernel might upgrade the fastest. Of course, my 735Mhz GQ's will upgrade much slower than your dual-core 2.5Ghz 4Gb RAM running Feather Linux, but it's all for the info, not for a contest. Honesty is important here, because this kind of info may enable a new user to tailor their choice or use of distros to what is entered by you. 
My time stats will be included in a while, because I'm getting ready to smxi right now and will time it for this post and edit to include the time. NOTE: When I first tried to smxi, I got all kinds of error 100's, so I did apt-get dist-upgrade for which I received 403 forbidden errors. After going onto the sidux IRC, I was told that many servers are down in the US today for some unexplained reason, so I did and changed the mirror to Germany, and things went off without a hitch 
1.) DISTRO - sidux
2.) KERNEL - 2.6.24.2.slh.4-sidux-686
3.) TIME TO UPGRADE - 22 minutes, start to finish, incl. new kernel 2.6.24.2
4.) COMPUTER - HP Pavilion a1203w
5.) PROCESSOR - AMD Semperon 3000+ (1.8Ghz)
6.) RAM - 512 Mb
7.) PARTITION - 15Gb
8.) CONNECTION - DSL-256Kb
I don't know if the partition size makes any difference as far as an upgrade, but I thought I'd include it just in case someone has a theory that it might make any difference. I've also added the speed of my DSL line.
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uhhhhhhh yeah ??
The main iso after installing is usually out of sync after it's been out a week or two, the FIRST time you do a pacman -Syu it might take considerably longer...... never more than 1/2 an hour for me yet though...... ALL subsequent updates of EVERYTHING usually never take more than a couple minutes tops, unless KDE updates then you get a TON of updates all that day..... might take awhile then (my dsl speed isn't great at work).
My cable internet setup at home updated over 400 mb's of updates in the span of just a couple minutes. It was connecting at over a MB/sec ..... it's 64 bit/3.6ghz machine with 4 gigs ram and it has gigbit ethernet connected to a gigabit router so no limitations other than the download speed of the server i'm pulling from. Updating the entire system every day usually takes less than 60 seconds....... no big deal. Even kernel updates on that machine take less than a min or two tops. One of the reasons I love using Arch.
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| Arch will, 90% of the time, take less time than anything based on Sid to update. The packages in Sid are rebuilt almost monthly. If you go over 3 days without doing a dist-upgrade in sidux, you will have WELL over 100 updates to apply. Arch, because they rebuild it less frequently (WAY less frequently) will usually have 10-20 to update.
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It takes anywhere from a minute to an hour to do a distribution upgrade. Under ten packages can easily be done in a few minutes, even if they are large, but if they are small, it is almost instantaneous.
On sidux, you should do dist-upgrades at least once a week, otherwise you will have hundreds of packages to modify, and that is what takes a long time.
Also, do an apt-get clean every now and then to clean up the cache, that helps.
I've done as many as 800 packages in about an hour, but it can get lengthy if there are upwards of 800 packages. |
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I regularly do a dist-upgrade on antiX (using sid repos), and because there is nothing heavy like openoffice, KDE, it only takes a few minutes. Today (and yesterday) I have been experimenting and I successfully installed the new sidux 2.6.24 kernel to it and it took about 10 minutes on my box an AMD 2025, 512 RAM.
But as someone posted above, there are far too many variables in trying to get some sort of picture._________________ antiX
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| crouse wrote: | uhhhhhhh yeah ??
The main iso after installing is usually out of sync after it's been out a week or two, the FIRST time you do a pacman -Syu it might take considerably longer...... never more than 1/2 an hour for me yet though...... ALL subsequent updates of EVERYTHING usually never take more than a couple minutes tops, unless KDE updates then you get a TON of updates all that day..... might take awhile then (my dsl speed isn't great at work).
My cable internet setup at home updated over 400 mb's of updates in the span of just a couple minutes. It was connecting at over a MB/sec ..... it's 64 bit/3.6ghz machine with 4 gigs ram and it has gigbit ethernet connected to a gigabit router so no limitations other than the download speed of the server i'm pulling from. Updating the entire system every day usually takes less than 60 seconds....... no big deal. Even kernel updates on that machine take less than a min or two tops. One of the reasons I love using Arch. |
I have DSL here, 256k MAX! My first dist-upgrade took over 4 hours, subsequest ones being 1/2 hour or less, and it's all in init 3, which means I get to sit and watch, as X can't be up or it will mess things up badly (as in broken). I did a speed test yesterday, in preparation for this upgrade (and thread), and I had 258k upload and 262k download  When I asked the tech support why it was so slow, he acted as if that was almost a T-1 speed! I just acted the ignorant fool and bit my tongue ..... We have no cable option here, maybe a dish network, but I'm pretty sure I can't afford satellite Internet!  When my SS goes through, I'll probably not be able to afford even DSL, so I'll most likely be back on dial-up like Germ --- he and I will be able to commiserate about the speed of dial-up again ...... we can compare dial-up speeds
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Yeah, that'll limit you. I regularly get 600K SUSTAINED down, peaks regularly over 1000, infrequently hitting peaks of 1500 (both sidux and arch about the same speed). Limited to 256 will definitely cause your updates to take WAY longer.
By the way, don't they have DSL packages starting at $15/month there? I know they do here, only $5/month more expensive than dial-up.
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| JP wrote: | | I have DSL here, 256k MAX |
Same here. And I have so little time to run my Linux computer that I do pacman -Syu MAYBE every 2 weeks in a good month..... most of the time it's over 3 weeks. And crouse is right--unless GNOME (don't use KDE) has released an update, it STILL goes pretty fast....even with a few weeks of not updating. I don't remember exact times, but I can definitely agree with what's already been mentioned: It's VERY, very rarely over 1/2 hour....even WITH Gnome updates......
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I just start a testbox with Archlinux. This computer was 253 days offline. How it looks I will posting today
| Code: | [root@arch-02 jada]# pacman -Syu
warning: current locale is invalid; using default "C" locale
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core 23.8K 80.0K/s 00:00:00 [#####################] 100%
extra 310.5K 292.3K/s 00:00:01 [#####################] 100%
community 341.0K 295.8K/s 00:00:01 [#####################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace mktemp with core/coreutils? [Y/n] y
:: Replace mpg321 with extra/mpg123? [Y/n] y
warning: bind: forcing upgrade to version 9.4.2-1
warning: cpufrequtils: forcing upgrade to version 002-3
warning: dnsutils: forcing upgrade to version 9.4.2-1
warning: flex: forcing upgrade to version 2.5.33-4
warning: opera: forcing upgrade to version 9.25-2
:: pacman has detected a newer version of the "pacman" package.
:: It is recommended that you allow pacman to upgrade itself
:: first, then you can re-run the operation with the newer version.
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:: Upgrade pacman first? [Y/n] y
resolving dependencies... done.
looking for inter-conflicts... done.
Targets: libarchive-2.4.11-1 libdownload-1.3-1 pacman-3.1.1-1
Total Package Size: 1.19 MB
Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages from core...
libarchive 314.8K 253.4K/s 00:00:01 [#####################] 100%
libdownload 49.4K 97.9K/s 00:00:01 [#####################] 100%
pacman 855.2K 460.4K/s 00:00:02 [#####################] 100%
checking package integrity... done.
cleaning up... done.
(3/3) checking for file conflicts [#####################] 100%
(1/3) upgrading libarchive [#####################] 100%
(2/3) upgrading libdownload [#####################] 100%
(3/3) upgrading pacman [#####################] 100%
>>> The makepkg.conf syntax has changed, please note the new format
>>> when merging the pacnew file with your old configuration.
>>>
>>> The pacman.conf default file has changed. Please update your
>>> config to use the single mirrorlist, and any additional files
>>> in /etc/pacman.d/ (core, extra, etc.) can be deleted.
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>>> The location of sync DBs has moved from /var/lib/pacman/ to
>>> /var/lib/pacman/sync/ for several reasons. To delete older
>>> DBs, please run pacman -Sc and follow the instructions.
>>> You will also have to run pacman -Sy to refresh the sync DBs.
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>>> abs is no longer included; please install the 'abs' package
>>> to use abs. You may need to edit abs.conf to re-enable repos.
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[root@arch-02 jada]# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core 23.8K 80.3K/s 00:00:00 [#####################] 100%
extra 310.5K 261.1K/s 00:00:01 [#####################] 100%
community 341.0K 302.5K/s 00:00:01 [#####################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace mktemp with core/coreutils? [Y/n] y
:: Replace mpg321 with extra/mpg123? [Y/n] y
warning: bind: forcing upgrade to version 9.4.2-1
warning: cpufrequtils: forcing upgrade to version 002-3
warning: dnsutils: forcing upgrade to version 9.4.2-1
warning: flex: forcing upgrade to version 2.5.33-4
warning: opera: forcing upgrade to version 9.25-2
resolving dependencies...
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: bash will be installed before its glibc dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: readline will be installed before its glibc dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ncurses will be installed before its glibc dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: db will be installed before its coreutils dependency
looking for inter-conflicts...
Remove: mktemp mpg321
Total Removed Size: 0.08 MB
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| Wow....that's a buncha updates!!!
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bdquick
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| Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2025 1:08 am Post subject: |
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| That looks like how my arch updates generally go LOL. I don't use the computer daily so unless I have it booted and in arch it don't get updated. Think my last updated was 485mb, but most of the time is spent with downloading packages.
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JP
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| Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2025 1:30 am Post subject: |
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| tlmiller wrote: |
By the way, don't they have DSL packages starting at $15/month there? I know they do here, only $5/month more expensive than dial-up. |
Nope, that's it! It's either, do you want DSL (which turns out to be 256k) or do you want dial-up! There are no different DSL packages to choose from.
| anticapitalista wrote: | | I regularly do a dist-upgrade on antiX (using sid repos), and because there is nothing heavy like openoffice, KDE, it only takes a few minutes. Today (and yesterday) I have been experimenting and I successfully installed the new sidux 2.6.24 kernel to it and it took about 10 minutes on my box an AMD 2025, 512 RAM. |
So antiX uses Sid repos .... that's cool! I thought it was based on Mepis, but you can use a sidux kernel? That is cool ! When I used Mepis, you couldn't use anything but a Mepis kernel . I wasn't looking to make the variables a big concern, just if someone had the same hardware and was considering the same distro, they might be able to use that as a possible benchmark, but that's OK, I'm still getting the timelengths for the most part.
| Iberg wrote: | | And I have so little time to run my Linux computer that I do pacman -Syu MAYBE every 2 weeks in a good month..... most of the time it's over 3 weeks. And crouse is right--unless GNOME (don't use KDE) has released an update, it STILL goes pretty fast....even with a few weeks of not updating. I don't remember exact times, but I can definitely agree with what's already been mentioned: It's VERY, very rarely over 1/2 hour....even WITH Gnome updates...... |
I don't use KDE or Gnome, I only use XFCE so I would expect to have less packages to update in that respect.
Jada, you showed us that you did an upgrade (you just added 3/4 of a Gig to your box ), but not how long it took . I think crouse used a special command | Code: | | [root@localhost pkg]# time pacman -Syu |
Arch has a pretty cool way of keeping track of your upgrade times .... I wonder if I could do that with sidux? Probably not with smxi, but with apt-get dist-upgrade?
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