On 2010/04/25 00:45, Antti Harri wrote: > > There used to be some problems with large packages > and FTP sites. Maybe some of the devs could say > if this still is relevant or not. The symptoms > sound the same at least to me. > > Anyway you will most likely get far better throughput if you use > http, try http://ftp.fr.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/i386/ > instead.
the ftp problems are only when going through ftp-proxy(8) which mangles the SYNCH sequence needed to interrupt transfers. if you can avoid ftp-proxy then ftp should a similar speed to http. frantisek, some -vvv on the pkg_add line might help throw light on it, also send it a siginfo (often done with ^T depending on your shell setup) and see if that either unfreezes it, or gives you more information. or ktrace perhaps.
