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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 12:56:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Paul Griffith <paulg@interlog.com>
To: "Pedro Giffuni S," <giffunip@asme.org>
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Subject: Re: Linux faster thasn FreeBSD
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Paul Griffith - paulg@interlog.com

On Mon, 22 Sep 1997, Pedro Giffuni S, wrote:

> You are right...
> 1) FreeBSD 2.1.6 is very old and has poor performance when compared to
> 2.2.x.
> 2) Linux usually FEELS faster in a single user environment, but it is no
> match to a recent version of FreeBSD with many users and/or intensive
> tasks.
> 
> Additionally, it seems like you chose the slowest disk for a swap
> partition and you probably didn't fine tune the kernel ;-).
> 
> 	Pedro.

So I should use the SCSI HD as my swap space ? What basic fine tuning
would you suggest ? 

Paul Griffith