Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 22:16:26 -0700 (PDT) From: John Dyson <dyson> To: serges@umr.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.0.5 Eager to go into swap Message-ID: <199508040516.WAA19342@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: <m0seElt-0004JUC@nero.uucp> from "serges@umr.edu" at Aug 3, 95 11:54:08 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. > There is almost *NO* conceivable way that the VM system or kernel can be causing the problem of the huge X server. Let's look at user-land where the problem is!!! (Actually, it appears that the VM system is doing a pretty good job considering what is being asked of it.) John dyson@root.om
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