Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 23:10:04 +0300 (AST) From: The ShadowS Know <shadows@whitefang.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Memory allocation on freebsd Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.960914230530.24754g-100000@broken.whitefang.com>
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*NOTICE: I AM NOT FLAMING*
A while back I ran a Linux box, and I must say it was alot faster than the
current FreeBSD I'm running (2.1.5). Now I realise I'm using an EIDE and
it isnt supported under the FreeBSD kernel (it only supports IDE so i bet
its much slower than it ought to be). But I can't get over how slow my
programs sometimes start up. This is done on a pentium 100 32 MB comp.
I have a feeling it has something to do with the speed memory is
allocated, or how it constantly drops memory into swap space. I have an
80 MB swap area. THis was all done by just hitting the auto-command when i
spliced my Partition in the installation program. I decided to do that
since it was my first installation of FreeBSD.
Could I be doing something terribly wrong thats causing the slowness. Mind
you I'm using it stand alone (only me). No other users or heavy load is
bieng placed on it.
On the other hand I love the robust standard kernel it has. When I develop
something I dont have to spend hours porting it to other architectures
since its _very_ standard (Linux had alot of wierd non-standard things).
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Specialising in Custom Network Applications
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