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    Anyone else noticing a slow boot up on RC1 after months of updates?

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved 2.0-RC Snapshot Feedback and Problems - RETIRED
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      splippity
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      I was an early adopter of pfSense when it hit RC1 because clearOS ran so unstable and prone to problems but Im starting to notice changes in my pfSense.

      I update my pfSense install just about every 10 days or so but I have noticed it is booting slower and slower after updates. Is it just the system not being "fresh"? Should I just wait till it gets past RC and do a fresh install to make it clean and fast again?

      Its p4 1.3ghz and it takes almost 6min to boot up to the audio beeps. Used to take like 3 minutes. So its a substantial change. Just wanted to know if anyone else is experiencing the same thing and if its just something that would be worked out with a fresh install.

      thanks.

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        LostInIgnorance
        last edited by

        You running any packages?

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          geeknik
          last edited by

          I upgraded from 1.2.3 to 2.0 alpha and have steadily upgraded every 2-3 weeks since then and boot speeds are fine here. I should probably do a fresh install to clean out any cobwebs, but it runs, so why bother. ;)

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            splippity
            last edited by

            yeah Im using squid, lightsquid, and rrd summary

            When I go to boot it takes a while for squid saying its syncing it.

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              jag2000
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              i noticed that when i upgrade to the latest snapshot it has to re download country block.. hvap and all my other packages from scratch. then i have to go into the gui and setup country block . i dont upgrade every day cause i have to listen to a house full of people saying the internet is down lol.

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              • jimpJ
                jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                last edited by

                @splippity:

                yeah Im using squid, lightsquid, and rrd summary

                When I go to boot it takes a while for squid saying its syncing it.

                Probably due to the ever-growing size of your squid cache over time.

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                  splippity
                  last edited by

                  oh yeah good call. I only thought about the squid ram caching but forgot about the hd caching I setup too.

                  thanks.

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                  • jimpJ
                    jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                    last edited by

                    Try the squid update I just pushed to the package repo. I stopped it from doing a recursive chown/chgrp operation inside the cache folder, since it's not really needed and definitely slow once the cache starts growing.

                    It should save/sync a lot faster.

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                    • johnpozJ
                      johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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                      even 3 minutes seems long, I just updated mine to
                      2.0-RC1-IPv6 (i386)
                      built on Wed Apr 27 22:00:11 EDT 2011

                      And its an OLD P3 800mhz running on a antique of a 6GB HDD ;) and only took like 1:40 from reboot to beep.

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