And what happens when you go from A or B to C? Have you been running a top or systat 
-vmstat while this is happening? 
I'm thinking it might be a purely IO thing, on the proc box.  I have seen similar 
slowness with the default FreeBSD
install on single proc boxes, but a few sysctl's seem to do the trick.

Eric


Danny Braniss wrote:
> 
> > How many times did you run the test?  Could it have been cached in host B, but not 
>C?  What about disk performance?
> > Maybe one is ATA66 or 100, and tthe other is not?  Host C may only be UDMA33, and 
>possibly have a slow drive, with a
> > lower amount of memory for caching.  Did you rebuild kernels on any of them?
> >
> 
> so many questions :-)!
> 
> the test were run many times, on host C the port was changed, the cable was
> changed, the NIC was changed.
> 
> the disk is not relevant, the test uses a small program i wrote that writes
> from memory.
> 
> at the moment all three run the same version of the kernel, the only diff is
> that A & B are smp, and C is not.
> 
> danny

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