> But the very same machine, under NetBSD, with the very same ip address, > downloads the very same file from the very same external server > (downloads.kergis.com) in 17s, while hget(1) spends 6 minutes doing > it.
Just for one more data point: dump the hget output to /dev/null. That may at least exclude the disks and fossil from the equation. Lucio.