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From: Samath Wijesundera <samath@slt.lk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: why IRC server response slowly?
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 13:23:04 +0600
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Michael Law wrote:
> 
> I installed irc2.9.1.16 on FreeBSD2.2.1.  My IRC client is mIRC5.02.
> It takes 27 seconds to connect to the server.  What's going wrong?

I guess this is possible due to not enough memory and trying to use the
swap extensively which takes time. Check your m/c with 
	vmstat -w5
I am not much confident but check for the memory and swap activities.

- Samath