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Date:      Mon, 16 Sep 1996 11:07:57 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>
To:        jab@rock.anchorage.net (Jeffrey Barber)
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Very Slow Ethernet Link
Message-ID:  <199609161607.QAA12775@right.PCS>
In-Reply-To: <01BBA3A2.11B93340@jabpc.rtfm.com> from "Jeffrey Barber" at Sep 16, 96 07:38:33 am

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> 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



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