# Extremely long times fetching Julia General registry on macOS

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**Category:** Package Management\
**Tags:** pkg\
**Created:** [October 21, 2021, 2:38am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/extremely-long-times-fetching-julia-general-registry-on-macos/70123 "2021-10-21T02:38:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 12:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/extremely-long-times-fetching-julia-general-registry-on-macos/70123/2 "2021-10-21T12:17:12Z")

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There have been various reports with similar problems. One possible solution: try to switch over to the new Pkg server infrastructure as recommended here:

> [@Status of Pkg speed improvements outside US in v1.5](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/status-of-pkg-speed-improvements-outside-us-in-v1-5/46395/4):
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> I don’t think it has changed a lot in the EU, it has always been fast for me, and still is. For example, here is an add of Pluto, with downloading all it’s dependencies and updating the registry: julia\> @time Pkg.add("Pluto") Updating registry at `/tmp/tmp.Y7GcP6DpXb/registries/General` Resolving package versions... Installed MbedTLS\_jll ─ v2.16.8+0 Installed MsgPack ───── v1.1.0 Installed IniFile ───── v0.5.0 Installed MbedTLS ───── v1.0.2 Installed HTTP ──────── v0.8.17 Inst…

There also have been various reports that virus checkers slow down registry updates. Excluding `.julia/registries` from the monitored directories appears to help sometimes. (I did not in my case [MacOS], but things got a lot faster in v1.6 for me).

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