From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 1 20:27:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt052n3e.san.rr.com (dt052n3e.san.rr.com [204.210.33.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E1B237BC36 for ; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 20:27:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt052n3e.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA35421; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 20:27:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <395EB69B.A996E285@gorean.org> Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 20:27:23 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0629 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Bill Barnes , freebsd questions Subject: Re: freebsd performance References: <3987C7B4@operamail.com> <20000701013304.C25571@fw.wintelcom.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > * Bill Barnes [000701 01:26] wrote: > > Hello list: > > > > 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. > > That's strange, it loads instantly for me, maybe your connectivity > sucks? Actually it might not be his connectivity. There was a fiber cut at Global in Sunnyvale that had a drastic effect on their network, and thus Yahoo!'s, since quite a few of our machines are co-located there. (all of this is public knowledge, btw) Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message