From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Sep 16 09:11:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA13204 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 09:11:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fullfeed.msn.fullfeed.com (fullfeed.msn.fullfeed.com [199.184.182.42]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA13199; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 09:11:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sumatra.americantv.com by fullfeed.msn.fullfeed.com (8.6.9/FF-1.1) id LAA26698; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 11:10:43 -0500 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sumatra.americantv.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id KAA07019; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 10:38:28 -0500 Received: (jlemon@localhost) by right.PCS (8.6.13/8.6.4) id QAA12775; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 16:07:58 GMT From: Jonathan Lemon Message-Id: <199609161607.QAA12775@right.PCS> Subject: Re: Very Slow Ethernet Link To: jab@rock.anchorage.net (Jeffrey Barber) Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 11:07:57 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <01BBA3A2.11B93340@jabpc.rtfm.com> from "Jeffrey Barber" at Sep 16, 96 07:38:33 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Ok, I just installed FreeBSD 2.1 and boy this is slow, Example: > 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.342 ms > On my Linux box I get a ping response of: > 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.9 ms Umm, 0.342ms < 0.9ms, isn't it? If your question is "why is Linux ~3x slower", then that question might be better asked on a linux mailing list. This assumes similar hardware. Note that different hardware also affects the ping rate: 386/20 w/4MB running 2.2-960612-SNAP: 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=6.563 ms 586/133 w/32M running 2.1.0-RELEASE: 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=0.158 ms -- Jonathan