From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 16 09:19:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA14058 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 09:19:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from home.winc.com (root@home.winc.com [204.178.182.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA14046; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 09:19:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phoenix.aristar.com (slip125.winc.com [204.178.182.125]) by home.winc.com (8.7.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA21070; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 12:18:51 -0400 Message-ID: <323D7E23.31DFF4F5@aristar.com> Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 12:19:47 -0400 From: "Matthew A. Gessner" Organization: Aristar, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b8Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nate Williams CC: Jeffrey Barber , "'freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org'" , "'hackers@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Enough (was Re: Very Slow Ethernet Link) References: <01BBA3A2.11B93340@jabpc.rtfm.com> <199609161554.JAA02862@rocky.mt.sri.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. -- Matthew Gessner, Computer Scientist, Aristar, Inc. 302 N. Cleveland-Massillon Rd. Akron, OH 44333 Voice (330) 668-2267, Fax (330) 668-2961