From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 1 10:49:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70A9A16A4CF for ; Sun, 1 Aug 2004 10:49:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web41004.mail.yahoo.com (web41004.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.93.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 447A743D60 for ; Sun, 1 Aug 2004 10:49:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from asdzxc111@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20040801104938.86060.qmail@web41004.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [141.76.1.122] by web41004.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 01 Aug 2004 03:49:38 PDT Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 03:49:38 -0700 (PDT) From: DK To: Bill Moran In-Reply-To: <20040729105528.46377760.wmoran@potentialtech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BigApache for Windows - Why doesn't BSD have an installer X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 10:49:38 -0000 --- Bill Moran wrote: > > My bootup is fine, its the BSD+wmaker running & opening nedit & a cmd > prompts > > > that are slower than Windows 2000 ?? any suggestions as to why ?? > My FreeBSD system, using Gnome (which is a system hog) is faster than when > Windows NT was installed ... and I _KNOW_ NT is faster than W2K. So, if > you're honestly having speed problems, then something is wrong. > > So, you need to do the proper steps to figure out what's wrong with your > system. Have you pasted a dmesg? My first guess would be that your > hardware is a little off, and Windows has drivers for it but FreeBSD doesn't, > thus you get expected performance on Windows, but crap on FreeBSD. Hi Bill, Apologies if I come across as trolling. I guess I had too high an expectation as to what I expected FBSD to be able to do. I will refrain from doing comparisons with Windows as that seems to just annoy people. As for dmesg, I will run that tonight & post that. I assume I type: dmesg -a > Also, are you saying that you run nedit on both Windows and FreeBSD and it's > faster on Windows? Or are you comparing nedit to an apple? I run Nedit on FBSD & Emeditor on Windows which is much more GUI color intensive & has many more functions than Nedit. Again, EmEditor on Windows loads & runs "much faster" then Nedit on FBSD. As you said, it may be that FBSD has defaulted hardware for my box that is incorrect. > Also, have you monitored various system "stuff"? Run top, systat, etc > while starting the programs in an attempt to isolate the bottleneck. If there is any other particular diagnostic programs on FBSD that you want me to run & post the details that may help identify my slow performance please let me know ?? I haven't run top or systat, but I will run them tonight. Kind Regards, DK __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail