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0 pointsSomeoneFromCA2y ago0 comments

I recently booted old (Freebsd 12) VM and was surprised how _much_ more performant (vs debian) its tcp stack is, even when just browsing.

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dewey2y ago

I somehow have a hard time believing that you can feel the performance of the tcp stack while browsing of all things in a VM, are you sure it can be attributed to that?

SomeoneFromCAOP2y ago

Yes, I also have same hard time believing in it, but internet felt snappier.

anotherhue2y ago

I had this experience recently and realised I had crippled my day to day system with a slow DNS resolver. Suddenly everything was snappy.

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dewey2y ago

Sounds more likely that your OS just had less things going on and your browser not as many extensions running as your daily driver browser.

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0 pointsSomeoneFromCA2y ago0 comments

I recently booted old (Freebsd 12) VM and was surprised how _much_ more performant (vs debian) its tcp stack is, even when just browsing.

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dewey2y ago

I somehow have a hard time believing that you can feel the performance of the tcp stack while browsing of all things in a VM, are you sure it can be attributed to that?

SomeoneFromCAOP2y ago

Yes, I also have same hard time believing in it, but internet felt snappier.

anotherhue2y ago

I had this experience recently and realised I had crippled my day to day system with a slow DNS resolver. Suddenly everything was snappy.

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dewey2y ago

Sounds more likely that your OS just had less things going on and your browser not as many extensions running as your daily driver browser.

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