From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 5 2: 1:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C4D537B968; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 02:01:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id CAA16570; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 02:01:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 02:01:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: "Alexey N. Dokuchaev" Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fork test In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Alexey N. Dokuchaev wrote: > Well, after very short time, both boxes responded to console switchings > and things like that, but trying to run something like "ps", "w", > "uptime" put machine quite on hold (about 2 minutes). The thing is that > Linux finished runnig commands about 3 times faster than FreeBSD. What > the heck does that suppose to mean?! I thought FreeBSD whould kick linux > butt? FreeBSD spawned many more processes than Linux before it started being unable to fork and was thus running many more live copies of the program? You haven't really given/collected enough information to decide. Kris ---- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message