From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 1 7:27:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po3.wam.umd.edu (po3.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FC4337B808 for ; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 07:27:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from culverk@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac1.wam.umd.edu (root@rac1.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.141]) by po3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA18628; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 10:27:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac1.wam.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac1.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA07928; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 10:27:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac1.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA07924; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 10:27:28 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac1.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 10:27:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: Bill Barnes Cc: freebsd questions Subject: Re: freebsd performance In-Reply-To: <3987C7B4@operamail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > if freebsd is running yahoo.com why is that website so damned slow. > It's 3 AM, CDT and it is taking minutes to fetch and delete mail. I'm > using Opera which is a fast browser elsewhere, but it sure bogs down > at mail.yahoo.com. Operamail and google are almost instant. > > Makes me wonder about perfomance on my website. > Have you tried doing a traceroute from your machine to yahoo? there could be an intermediate router that's having trouble. A lot of the time this is why yahoo has problems, and I'd almost expect this to be the problem at 3 in the morning. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message