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Subject: Re: 2.0.5 Eager to go into swap
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In-Reply-To: <199508040425.VAA06637@bubba.tribe.com> from "Archie Cobbs" at Aug 3, 95 09:25:14 pm
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> I've used Linux a lot and now I'm starting to use FreeBSD a lot, and I can
> tell you the difference in memory usage is very noticable to me.

This was why I originally followed-up here. The paging on FreeBSD *is*
significantly *different* than that of other Unices running on the same
machines.

> > Maybe that's why nobody wants to deal with this issue--it collapses into a
> > flame war and nobody can do anything about it anyway!
> 
> Hmmm.. bad attitude! If Linux can do it right, then so can FreeBSD...
> or at least there is evidence that maybe FreeBSD can do it better.

Ditto hmmm... Im optimistic that it *can be* improved for FBSD.
Especially, since other BSD derived systems have found 
reasonable solutions for a standard hardware configuration. 
(SunOS 4.X comes to mind)

[Deleted]
> What's up with the X server? Is that all because of malloc()? Yow.

:);) 
Good question.

Serge-


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> -Archie
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