From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 12 21:31:21 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id VAA18517 for current-outgoing; Sun, 12 Nov 1995 21:31:21 -0800 Received: from localhost.lightside.com (user59.lightside.com [198.81.209.59]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA18502 ; Sun, 12 Nov 1995 21:31:18 -0800 Received: (from jehamby@localhost) by localhost.lightside.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id VAA00258; Sun, 12 Nov 1995 21:32:15 -0800 Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 21:31:32 -0800 (PST) From: Jake Hamby X-Sender: jehamby@localhost To: Michael Hendrick cc: Peter Dufault , current@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ISP state their FreeBSD concerns In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 12 Nov 1995, Michael Hendrick wrote: > > On my system at home (486DX4/100, 850MB Western Digital IDE, VLB IDE > > controller, 24MB RAM) the system does seem to freeze up for as much as 5 > > seconds when I start up a large process such as Netscape or cause one of > > When I had IDE drives, this would also happen quite frequently under > Linux, so I would guess a timing problem of some sort with the IDE > controller, not specific to FreeBSD. Perhaps this is the reason behind the common observation that "Linux freezes to a crawl when it starts swapping to disk." I was told this was one big advantage of FreeBSD. Somehow, I'm starting to think that both OS's have this problem, but perhaps this is less noticed under FreeBSD due to: 1) Different paging algorithms between FreeBSD and Linux (?) 2) More Linux users use IDE; more FreeBSD users use SCSI. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jake Hamby | E-Mail: jehamby@lightside.com Student, Cal Poly University, Pomona | System Administrator, JPL ------------------------------------------------------------------------------