[SOLVED] 9.3 updates are SLOW...

[jms703]

I've tried upgrading to the latest stable vi the UI at least 3 times. The browser times out.

Once I rebooted too soon and got a dreaded mountroot error. I went back to working release and things are fine.

I've now downloaded the the latest stable nightly and am updating it via the UI. It's taking such a long time. I think I'm at 2 hours and it's still "uploading"

Checking disk space shows an incredibly slow write speed:

[root@freenas] ~# date
Thu Mar 19 09:46:52 PDT 2015
[root@freenas] ~# du -hs /mnt/vol1/.freenas/upgrade-8wWxTU/
480M /mnt/vol1/.freenas/upgrade-8wWxTU/

[root@freenas] ~# date
Thu Mar 19 09:54:24 PDT 2015
[root@freenas] ~# du -hs /mnt/vol1/.freenas/upgrade-8wWxTU/
483M /mnt/vol1/.freenas/upgrade-8wWxTU/

3MB in 8 minutes?

Any idea what I should look at to figure out why so slow?
The CPU is idle.
Logs show now errors.
SMART shows all drives healthy.
I've deleted some old boot snapshots to clear up space.

My boot filesystems
NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
freenas-boot 3.61G 26.9M 31K none
freenas-boot/ROOT 3.58G 26.9M 31K none
freenas-boot/ROOT/FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE-201412300101 52K 26.9M 932M /
freenas-boot/ROOT/FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE-201501162230 930M 26.9M 932M /
freenas-boot/ROOT/FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE-201501212031 47K 26.9M 933M /
what im running ---> freenas-boot/ROOT/FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE-201501241715 2.23G 26.9M 933M /
nightly stable install ---> freenas-boot/ROOT/FreeNAS-FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE-201503170439 449M 26.9M 477M /
freenas-boot/ROOT/default 46K 26.9M 931M legacy
freenas-boot/grub 15.8M 26.9M 7.80M legacy

My hardware:
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1230 v3 @ 3.30GHz
Supermicro X10SL7-F
32GB RAM (ECC)
6x WD RED 4TB plugged into onboard LSI SAS2308
SanDisk U3 Cruzer Micro 8.02 4GB USB flash drive plugged into the motherboard's USB 3.0 port.

 

[Ericloewe]

Your boot device is too full. A bigger one is recommended, but you can delete older snapshots to make some room.

 

[jms703]

Your boot device is too full. A bigger one is recommended, but you can delete older snapshots to make some room.

Thanks. Deleting the older snapshots fixed the problem. I guess the OS images are getting bigger. Even with just 2 snapshots, I'm at 84% usage, so I'll upgrade my USB flash drive from 4GB to something like 16GB.

 

[Bidule0hm]

Just FYI I use only 35% of a 8 GB USB drive with 9 boot envs ;)