From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 8 03:18:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA06275 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 8 Feb 1997 03:18:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id DAA06266 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 1997 03:18:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id LAA08121; Sat, 8 Feb 1997 11:29:49 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199702081029.LAA08121@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: ping To: dg@root.com Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 11:29:49 +0100 (MET) Cc: vrick@loa.com, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199702081058.CAA02629@root.com> from "David Greenman" at Feb 8, 97 02:58:06 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >Hi all, > >I have a question. > >On my FreeBSD system pinging localhost with 56 data bytes packets I have > >times areound 2-3 ms, while on the system of my friend (I installed > >the FreeBSD on his PC) the ping statistic gives time around 0.5- 0.8 ms > > > >How come on my system the time for each packet sent to localhost is so high? > >It does not look normal at all, I guess it. > >No data packets are lost but the times are like I told you before. > >Have you got any suggestion for this problem? > > That is rather odd. Ping localhost times here: > > [implode:dg] ping localhost > PING localhost.root.com (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes > 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.158 ms > 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.163 ms That obviuosly depends on CPU & speed. I get the following times 386DX/25 1.580 ms 486dx2/66 0.560 ms P5/133 0.244 ms also, has the original poster tried the obvious, i.e. cache enabled, turbo switch in high speed position, etc ? Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________