From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 21 02:59:27 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id CAA08394 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 02:59:27 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id CAA08380 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 02:58:37 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA13427; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 11:57:15 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA19873 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 08:51:17 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA04266 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 08:43:55 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199508210643.IAA04266@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Why Linux? (fwd) To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 08:43:54 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199508210148.SAA01536@freefall.FreeBSD.org> from "John Dyson" at Aug 20, 95 06:48:39 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 729 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As John Dyson wrote: > > I just did a competitive performance analysis of FreeBSD vs. Linux. I > can't say that FreeBSD was the CLEAR winner, but it was much faster > in many key areas. ... I cannot see where people say that Linux needs > less memory either. Did you also compare them on a 4 MB box? Would be interesting. Background: i'm running a notebook with 5 MB, and it's really slow. But it worked better with FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 than 2.0.5. (Part of this impression might be the switch from X11R5 to X11R6, along with that infamous omission of -lgnumalloc in XFree86 3.1.1.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)