I did this but still the fetching takes about 1 min.
On a slowish laptop, with Wi-Fi connection, Windows 10: Full registry after a removal of the entire .julia folder takes 2 1/2 minutes.
Try with Windows Defender disabled.
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Iām doing package updates on Debian Linux using the default Debian packages (julia 1.5.3) behind a proxy and itās saying
Updating registry at `~/.julia/registries/General`
For about 10 minutes so far. This is on a gigabit fiber connection.
Then all of a sudden it says:
Updating git-repo `https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General.git`
Fetching: [========================================>] 100.0 %
that bar flew across. clearly itās just hanging for some dumb reason like a timeout not because of anything real.
Now itās hanging some more.
Anyone with behavior like this?
(note: My home directory is on an NFS4 server running on a glusterfs cluster)
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First of all, do not use the default debian packages but the latest stable release from julialang.org .
Easy to install:
bash -ci "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/abelsiqueira/jill/master/jill.sh)"
Secondly, check the server status:
https://status.julialang.org
You could try a different server.
But if you are behind a proxy AND on an nfs server, both of it could cause problems where I cannot help you.
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Iāll start with the latest julialang version and see where that gets me.
btw https://status.julialang.org times out, ātaking too long to respondā so maybe thatās the issue.
Perhaps julialang.org is blocked by your proxy. Ask your admin. Or just use your phone to get internetā¦
I am the admin, and no itās not blocked. It came through eventually, but apparently itās intermittent for me.
This bar graph seems to indicate some issues recently:
Perhaps for some reason Iām getting connected to eu-central instead of us-west?
Oh us-west also shows issues:
Alternatively set it so a different Pkg Server, e.g.
export JULIA_PKG_SERVER=us-east.pkg.julialang.org
in the shell, or
ENV["JULIA_PKG_SERVER"] = "us-east.pkg.julialang.org"
from within Julia.
Ok, if all of them have problems you can only complain here in the forum and wait until the problems are fixedā¦
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The time is the same here, although I am using JuliaPro_v1.5.4-1 on Windows and was adding a package. The first thing Julia did was to spend 11 min updating General. Then it took only a few seconds updating JuliaComputingRegistry and the rest of stuff. This was not the first time it took about 10 min updating General.
Might be a Windows Defender thing: Pkg fetching takes very long at 99.9% @ v1.6 (Win 10) - #7 by carstenbauer
Iāve been seeing the same thing on Linux over the last days though (although as usual worse on Windows).
If itās happening on Linux as well, it sounds like a network/server issue, not the Windows problem that unpacking a tarball is ungodly slow. Fortunately, the tarball unpacking issue should be a thing of the past on all platforms with the 1.7 release since weāre now leaving the registry tarballs as-is on disk instead of unpacking them: https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg.jl/pull/2431.
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Just tried again on 1.6.1 on a Manjaro machine, again got stuck - this time on 100% rather than 99.9% - for about 4 minutes. My internet is a bit slow this morning but still clocks in at about 15MB/s, which I would have thought should be well enough?
How fast should I expect an update of the general registry to be assuming everything works normally (and Iām not on Windows)?
Would you be able to try the 1.7 beta or compile the release-1.6 branch form source? There are some fixes to Downloads that should be included in both of those and it would be interesting to see if that improves things for you.
1.7beta seemed a bit faster, although still got stuck for a noticeable time on 100% but a marked improvement!
The problem I was having was that the us-west package server had a problem with itās IPv6 connectivity. Perhaps others are having similar issues on other PKG servers?
See this thread [resolved] Problem with the IPv6 connectivity of the us-west Pkg server
Hi, recurrent issue indeed. Often stuck on a linux computation server with > Go connection. Painful.
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Iām having the same problem on Windows. Is there a list of package servers? I live in southern Europe. Iād like to try changing the server before trying anything else. (I have an almost 200mbs working conncection and Iām on the latest available version of Julia: 1.6.4)