From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 15 12:50:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA23029 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 12:50:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt050n33.san.rr.com (@dt050n33.san.rr.com [204.210.31.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA22963 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 19:50:37 GMT (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Received: from san.rr.com (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt050n33.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA04389; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 12:50:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Message-ID: <35350F80.77A43A46@san.rr.com> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 12:50:24 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Mahendra D. Khandkar(SBO)" CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Increasing FreeBSD performance References: <199804160117.UAA04984@physics.unipune.ernet.in> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mahendra D. Khandkar(SBO) wrote: > > Dear Sir, > > I am having two systems , both are 90MHz Pentiums. On one I > have installed Linux (Slackware) and the other is having FreeBSD-2.1.7.1 > installed on it. But one with FreeBSD seems to be slower, i.e. programs > executed on it run considerably slowly. Programs on both the machines are > compiled with gcc. > > How can I raise the performance of FreeBSD machine? Like so many other things in life, the answer is "it depends." :) Which programs are you talking about? Are they the exact same program compiled on both systems? Are the programs heavily disk intensive? Linux' disk access subsystem uses a fast but unsafe method of access that could result in much file system damage if the system is shut down unexpectedly. FreeBSD uses a slower but much safer method that virtually ensures a healthy file system in almost all cases (except for physical disk damage). In other words, we can't help you without more details. Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud designer and maintainer of the world's largest Internet *** Relay Chat server with 5,328 simultaneous connections. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message