Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 04:19:42 -0500 (EST) From: Tom Huppi <thuppi@huppi.com> To: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Discovered a new browser... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0501250313070.29365@nuumen.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <41F5CC50.90406@nbritton.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0501220328220.12163@nuumen.pair.com> <41F273B1.8080108@gmx.at> <f686a68a05012300114e3ea8c3@mail.gmail.com> <41F37A75.9020208@gmx.at> <Pine.BSF.4.58.0501232132010.62842@nuumen.pair.com> <41F5CC50.90406@nbritton.org>
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On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Nikolas Britton wrote: > Tom Huppi wrote: > > > > >On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Cesar Mello wrote: > > > >>FreeBSD is an excellent OS, I just dream with a GUI that's not as > >>heavy as currently xorg is. > > > >Xorg seems to be the real sticking point. FreeBSD's virtual > >memory subsystem has long been very good at adjusting to limited > >resources (dunno if Linux has caught up in this respect yet.) > >Matt Dillon wrote a nice technical description of how the VM > >subsystem takes a certain number of page hits in order to gage > >usage and adjust. It was quite noticeable in terms of > >responsiveness back in the old days. > > There is nothing wrong with Xorg and it is lightwight, the problem is > what you run on it: I guess there are different interpretation of 'lightweight' Your machine is stronger in memory terms than the one I'm using at the moment, and it seems that your Xorg is using more mem (although we have about the same amount resident.) Is your build of Xorg a standard ports build or package or something at all special? (I'm wondering if Xorg itself adjusts at load time based on resource availability.) Oh...how much mem do you have on your graphics adapter? I wish I would have taken better note of the numbers on some of my older installations...I've recently upgraded all my machines and can't easily compare. Thanks, - Tom <snip>
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