Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 19:31:29 +0000 From: Luis Neves <lneves@netcabo.pt> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I'm curious :-) Message-ID: <200303081931.29012.lneves@netcabo.pt> In-Reply-To: <20030308184038.GA3218@online.fr> References: <20030308184038.GA3218@online.fr>
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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
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