From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 16 10:30:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA19892 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 10:30:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.tfs.com ([140.145.230.177]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA19874; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 10:30:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.tfs.com (localhost.tfs.com [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA16559; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 19:29:38 +0200 (MET DST) To: Jeffrey Barber cc: "'freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org'" , "'hackers@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: Very Slow Ethernet Link In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 16 Sep 1996 07:38:33 -0800." <01BBA3A2.11B93340@jabpc.rtfm.com> Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 19:29:38 +0200 Message-ID: <16557.842894978@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <01BBA3A2.11B93340@jabpc.rtfm.com>, 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 > >round-trip min/avg/max = 0.342/0.349/0.362 ms > >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 >64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.9 ms >64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.9 ms >64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=1.0 ms > >Big difference here. Please shed some light on this for me. Seems to me that FreeBSD is 3 times >faster< on this completely silly benchmark... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.