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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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