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>Nate Williams wrote:
>> 
>> Jeffrey Barber writes:
>> > Ok, I just installed FreeBSD 2.1 and boy this is slow, Example:
>> >
>> > bash$ ping localhost
>> >
>> > PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
>> > 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.356 ms
>> 
>> vs.
>> 
>> > On my Linux box I get a ping response of:
>> >
>> > PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
>> > 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.1 ms
>> 
>> Hmm, it looks like the Linux box is about 3X slower than FreeBSD.  I'm
>> not sure, but in my math class .1 ms is faster than 1ms.
>> 
>> Nate
>Hey, all, by this time, he probably got the hint.

C'mon, let us have some fun. We haven't has a colossal blunder like this
in a while!

db