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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Slow load times
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 02:49:28 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: Joel Maslak <jmaslak@pobox.com>

Joel Maslak wrote:
> For instance, the Linux binary of pine takes about 2-3 seconds to load
> (Max), while the BSD version (pine 3.95 compiled as NetBSD) takes
> anywhere from 30-45 seconds.  Obviously something *FEELS* wrong!

Sounds like DNS is messed up in your FreeBSD environment but working
somehow in the Linux one.  Those sorts of delays aren't normal and sound
more like something taking an abnormally long amount of time to resolve
a hostname (possibly your own) or something.
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project