From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 23 05:05:00 2003 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 006AC37B401 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 05:05:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns2.foolishgames.net (ns2.foolishgames.net [216.93.162.119]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6147A43F75 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 05:04:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luke@foolishgames.com) Received: from foolishgames.com (adsl-65-42-186-203.dsl.klmzmi.ameritech.net [65.42.186.203]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns2.foolishgames.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h3NCrx78071522; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 05:54:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luke@foolishgames.com) Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 08:04:56 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) To: Antoine Jacoutot From: Lucas Holt In-Reply-To: <200304231334.55272.ajacoutot@lphp.org> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) cc: questions@freebsd.org cc: Jalle Subject: Re: Why is FreeBSD so SLOW? 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: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 12:05:00 -0000 > I think the fundamental difference is that Linux was designed to be a desktop operating system and FreeBSD is more of an all purpose operating system. In my opinion, any UNIX operating system is more reliable that a Windows or Linux counterpart. If you want a UNIX operating system with a fast, good gui.. try Mac OS X. Its still a BSD and you can use many commercial applications. In fact, supposedly apple uses FreeBSD code in their OS. As for your immediate speed problems, I would follow the advice already given for optimization. Also rebuild your kernel without all the stuff you don't need. That was the single, best improvement I ever did. I cut the size of the kernel in half on my FreeBSD server and my workstation install was almost as good. One last piece of advice, don't try to use KDE or Gnome if you are looking for speed. KDE is extremely slow. They have the silly idea to use a class to define NULL in their code. What a performance hit. Apple submitted several changes like this to the web browser project at KDE. (apple uses the KDE browser code for their safari browser) > Well, everything under X is much slower under FreeBSD than under Linux > or > Windows (any flavor)... at least, this is my experience. > I think (please feel free to basically, for today jobs (workstation, > small > workgroup servers...) Linux is faster, but in high load server tasks , > FreeBSD is the fastest OS I've ever seen (OK, I haven't seen a lot, but > still). > Nevertheless, I use FreeBSD on my workstation. > > Best regards. > > Antoine > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Lucas Holt Luke@FoolishGames.com ________________________________________________________ FoolishGames.com JustJournal.com "The next generation of interesting software will be made on a Macintosh, not an IBM PC." -- Bill Gates (unconfirmed quote)