urllib slow on FreeBSD 4.7?

[Brian Quinlan]

dsavitsk wrote:
> >>> f = open('somefile')
> >>> u = urllib.urlopen('http://site/index.asp?file=somefile')
> >>> f.write(u.read())
> 
> to get a 5 meg file takes about 1 to 2 seconds on a 500mhz windows
> computer and nearly 2 minutes on a 150mhz freebsd computer.  
> (redhat 8 on a PII350 is also fast) both client computers and the 
> server are on the same network. any ideas?  any other ways to get the
> file?

Could you try retrieving the file using wget/curl/etc on FreeBSD to
verify that it is not a network problem?

Cheers,
Brian