>Nevin Pratt <nevin at smalltalkpro.com> is claimed by the authorities 
>to have written:
>
>>  I've been able to successfully build several VM's on my FreeBSD box.
>>
>>  Unfortunately, *every* VM I build exhibits extremely slow performance
>>  for answering web requests when using Comanche.  The browser on the
>>  other end of the network link just waits and waits, then gets a little
>>  data, then waits and waits some more, then gets a little more data, etc.
>>   It's extremely painful.
>There's been some recent discussion about sockets, semaphores etc and I
>think I noticed that Comanche suffered from the latest attempt. You
>could try retreiving a week or so old copy of
>platforms/unix/plugins/SocketPlugin/sqUnixSockets.c which would almost
>surely have the bugs that were being attacked but at least seems to do
>Comanche ok.
>

Yes this issue is being fixed, I"m peering at a broken freebsd VM right now....
Certainly the issue of dribbles of data has been fixed, so wait a day or so
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