# Why does installation of x-pack take so long time? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [November 15, 2016, 1:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-does-installation-of-x-pack-take-so-long-time/66122 "2016-11-15T13:33:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mathias](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mathias/32/23176_2.png) [@mathias](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mathias)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 1:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-does-installation-of-x-pack-take-so-long-time/66122/1 "2016-11-15T13:33:47Z")
Hi, It takes more than 15 minutes to install x-pack in Kibana. Is that normal? Is there a debug option to see what is going on during installation phase? Running on Ubuntu 16.04. Elastic stack 5.0.0 Br Mat ---
**Author:** ![LeeDr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leedr/32/9289_2.png) [@LeeDr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/LeeDr)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 3:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-does-installation-of-x-pack-take-so-long-time/66122/2 "2016-11-15T15:21:23Z")
Hi Mat, Installing x-Pack has 2 parts that can each take a while. The first is when it's downloading the Kibana X-Pack zip file. It's about 54MB and I just downloaded that to check and it took me 51s to download. That part could take more or less time depending on your connection. The second part is the `Optimizing and caching browser bundles...` and it can take a couple of minutes. On my last install the whole thing took just over 3 minutes, so that optimizing step took a little over 2 minutes. But I have seen it take longer. The dev team is aware that this step is slow and are planning to rewrite some code to reduce or eliminate that time. But it's a significant change and I don't know when we'll see it in a release. Is yours taking all the time during the `Optimizing and caching browser bundles...`? There's not any debug logging you could turn on that shows what's going on during that `Optimizing and caching browser bundles...` step. Here's my timed install of a test version of x-pack; ```auto [root@localhost vagrant]# time /usr/share/kibana/bin/kibana-plugin install http://....../downloads/kibana-plugins/x-pack/x-pack-5.0.0.zip Attempting to transfer from http://..../downloads/kibana-plugins/x-pack/x-pack-5.0.0.zip Transferring 56957357 bytes.................... Transfer complete Retrieving metadata from plugin archive Extracting plugin archive Extraction complete Optimizing and caching browser bundles... Plugin installation complete real 3m1.211s user 2m8.156s sys 0m7.569s ``` Regards, Lee ---
**Author:** ![mathias](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mathias/32/23176_2.png) [@mathias](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mathias)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 6:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-does-installation-of-x-pack-take-so-long-time/66122/3 "2016-11-15T18:13:26Z")
Hi Mat, I measured and it took me 9 min and 24 secs to run the installation. I have 100Mbit/s connection but is currently connected to office which limits the connection to 20Mbit/s. The download is fast. I noticed that the the CPU is idling quite a lot. top - 17:45:29 up 5:56, 2 users, load average: 1.36, 1.06, 0.54 Tasks: 144 total, 2 running, 142 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu0 : 18.9 us, 1.3 sy, 0.0 ni, 19.2 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.3 si, 60.3 st %Cpu1 : 8.1 us, 2.5 sy, 0.0 ni, 52.8 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 36.6 st KiB Mem : 2048252 total, 90456 free, 1247136 used, 710660 buff/cache KiB Swap: 0 total, 0 free, 0 used. 596408 avail Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 6874 root 20 0 2102388 999.9m 21652 R 114.3 50.0 5:52.90 /usr/share/kibana/bin/../node/bin/node --no-warnings /usr/share/kibana/bin/../src/cli\_plugin install x-pack 7 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 6.6 0.0 3:17.20 [rcu\_sched] 6047 root 20 0 640072 22224 10256 S 1.7 1.1 0:07.62 /usr/share/metricbeat/bin/metricbeat -c /etc/metricbeat/metricbeat.yml -path.home /usr/share/metricbeat -path.config /etc/metricbeat -path.data /var/lib/+ 6946 ubuntu 20 0 40548 3700 3016 R 1.7 0.2 0:00.52 top 3279 root 20 0 25092 21136 12372 S 1.3 1.0 0:54.55 /opt/consul agent -config-dir /etc/consul 34 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.7 0.0 0:03.28 [kswapd0] 4082 kibana 20 0 1291496 127420 21280 S 0.3 6.2 2:39.26 /usr/share/kibana/bin/../node/bin/node --no-warnings /usr/share/kibana/bin/../src/cli -c /etc/kibana/kibana.yml 6931 ubuntu 20 0 95368 4216 3260 S 0.3 0.2 0:00.15 sshd: ubuntu@pts/1 13993 root 20 0 275080 5080 3856 S 0.3 0.2 0:04.75 /usr/lib/accountsservice/accounts-daemon 32033 dnsmasq 20 0 51588 2100 1700 S 0.3 0.1 0:00.96 /usr/sbin/dnsmasq -x /var/run/dnsmasq/dnsmasq.pid -u dnsmasq -r /var/run/dnsmasq/resolv.conf -7 /etc/dnsmasq.d,.dpkg-dist,.dpkg-old,.dpkg-new --local-ser+ 1 root 20 0 185368 6072 4052 S 0.0 0.3 0:39.87 /lib/systemd/systemd --system --deserialize 24 A failed installation (due to already the plugin is already is installed stops after 1 min and 12 secs) sudo time /usr/share/kibana/bin/kibana-plugin install x-pack Attempting to transfer from x-pack Attempting to transfer from [https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/kibana-plugins/x-pack/x-pack-5.0.0.zip](https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/kibana-plugins/x-pack/x-pack-5.0.0.zip) Transferring 56932561 bytes.................... Transfer complete Retrieving metadata from plugin archive Extracting plugin archive Extraction complete Plugin x-pack already exists, please remove before installing a new version Command exited with non-zero status 70 58.52user 15.53system 1:12.07elapsed 102%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 699732maxresident)k 16inputs+320048outputs (1major+301060minor)pagefaults 0swaps I will later try to get more cores and more memory to see if it makes any difference. Br Mathias ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2016, 6:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-does-installation-of-x-pack-take-so-long-time/66122/4 "2016-12-13T18:13:37Z")
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