From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 28 5:30:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BFF9437BDEC for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 05:30:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 96155 invoked from network); 28 Jul 2000 12:30:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO theory3.physics.iisc.ernet.in) (qmailr@144.16.71.158) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 28 Jul 2000 12:30:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 13351 invoked by uid 211); 28 Jul 2000 12:30:21 -0000 Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 18:00:20 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: j mckitrick Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux kernel and FreeBSD neck and neck? Message-ID: <20000728180020.A13337@physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <20000728124727.A58850@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000728173235.A13136@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <20000728131956.B58850@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000728131956.B58850@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org on Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 01:19:56PM +0100 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.0-test3 i686 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org j mckitrick said on Jul 28, 2000 at 13:19:56: > > I've seen on machines I've used, 2.2 definitely isn't as good at > > memory management as FreeBSD either. > > That's true. BSD's venerable memory management is one area that seems to be > a stronghold. I don't know about venerable: I read somewhere that a lot of the FreeBSD improvements are recent and due to Matt Dillon, and also that he's talking to Alan Cox of linux and eventually the memory management of FreeBSD and Linux may "merge"... I can't remember where I read this latter bit or how reliable the source may have been. But Alan Cox is an admirer of FreeBSD and runs it on one machine, and often mentions it in interviews. R. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message