Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 16:42:42 -0700 From: rob <rob@pythonemproject.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: Bob Bomar <bulldog@fxp.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: overclocking and freebsd Message-ID: <3CB770F2.3043929E@pythonemproject.com> References: <20011110215343.C961@bsd.alexe.org> <20020411182041.H45395@darius.2y.net> <20020411200534.A25472@ns.museum.rain.com> <20020412042041.GA80748@peitho.fxp.org> <20020412144054.GB2610@hades.hell.gr>
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Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>
> [Moved to -chat since this is no longer a "question" :)]
>
> On 2002-04-12 00:20, Bob Bomar wrote:
> > >
> > > FreeBSD pushes the hardware pretty hard as it is. I would bet you
> > > a dozen doughnuts that FreeBSD at 850 MHz will outperform Win2k at
> > > 1 GHz.
> >
> > I will actually prove that. My P-166 running 4.4-Release, apache,
> > postfix, mysql, and DNS ran faster than my PII-400 running just a
> > base Win 98. I mean faster as in, it started up faster, and it ran
> > Star Office faster, did i metion that the P-166 was running X?
>
> That's a highly subjective metric though. My FreeBSD machine feels a
> lot more responsive than those Windows XP machines with faster CPUs a
> and larger amounts of RAM I've seen friends work on. But how does one
> define an objective metric of 'responsiveness'?
>
> Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project
> keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/
>
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I do a lot of number crunching, and FreeBSD (and Linux) usability beats
Windows NT&2K by a huge factor when running ordinary applications
overtop of a simulation. I think it is superior memory management that
does it. Windows almost seems like its locked up in these situations,
until the sim stops and then things go back to normal. Fortunately, I
do not have XP to do that comparison :) Rob.
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