From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 16 09:49:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA16125 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 09:49:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from solar.os.com (craigs@solar.os.com [199.232.136.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA16106; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 09:49:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from craigs@localhost) by solar.os.com (8.7/8.7.0) id MAA28827; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 12:54:26 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 12:54:26 -0400 From: Craig Shrimpton Subject: Re: Very Slow Ethernet Link To: Jeffrey Barber cc: "'freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org'" , "'hackers@FreeBSD.ORG'" In-Reply-To: <01BBA3A2.11B93340@jabpc.rtfm.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 16 Sep 1996, Jeffrey Barber wrote: > 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 > 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.342 ms > 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.362 ms > 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=0.349 ms You got it backwards. The FreeBSD box is much faster than the Linux box. A return time of .349 is faster than a return time of .9 - Craig +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+ | Craig Shrimpton | e-mail: craigs@os.com | | Orbit Systems | information: info@os.com | | Worcester, MA 508.753.8776 | http://www.os.com/ | +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ Strategic Systems