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From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
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Subject: Re: Very Slow Ethernet Link
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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