From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Mar 8 11:31:32 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6236A37B401 for ; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 11:31:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.netcabo.pt (smtp.netcabo.pt [212.113.174.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 661C343FAF for ; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 11:31:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lneves@netcabo.pt) Received: from 192.168.1.100 ([81.84.94.101]) by smtp.netcabo.pt with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Sat, 8 Mar 2003 19:29:32 +0000 From: Luis Neves To: Rahul Siddharthan Subject: Re: I'm curious :-) Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 19:31:29 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org References: <20030308184038.GA3218@online.fr> In-Reply-To: <20030308184038.GA3218@online.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200303081931.29012.lneves@netcabo.pt> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Mar 2003 19:29:32.0837 (UTC) FILETIME=[0BB3ED50:01C2E5A9] Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Saturday 08 March 2003 18:40, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > It depends on how much CPU power and RAM you have, and how much your > processes are consuming. Currently I have a AthlonXP 1700 and ~500M of RAM. > At moderate levels of memory usage and disk I/O, linux is indeed more > "interactive": you get (or, at least, I get) skips in audio, frame > drops with mplayer, etc, much more under FreeBSD (either 4.x or 5.0) > than under Linux. > The "jerkiness" of window movements is especially > common under freebsd: when the system is busy, it seems to take a > while for X to respond to mouse clicks, etc. I don't use Linux, so I don't know. But like I said, I never experienced any skips in audio and/or framedrops with mplayer (try to change the buffer size in XMMS and the cache size in mplayer, and see if the helps) > At high loads, however, linux becomes practically unusable. (I > haven't tried the 2.5 kernel or recent 2.4 kernels). FreeBSD, even > when heavily stressed, locks up for a few seconds, swaps a bit, > possibly kills the offending process, and then proceeds as normal. > Linux often requires a reboot. Moshe Bar in a series of articles for Byte magazine where he stressed tested both Linux and FreeBSD said more or less the same thing: http://www.byte.com/servinglinux/2001/01/ But most of the issues seem to be solved: http://www.byte.com/servinglinux/2001/11/ Unfortunately these articles are not available to general public anymore, only to subscribers :-( Best regards, Luis Neves To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message