Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 16:56:59 +0930 (CST) From: Peter Childs <pjchilds@imforei.apana.org.au> To: shadows@whitefang.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Memory allocation on freebsd Message-ID: <199609180726.QAA07101@al.imforei.apana.org.au>
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In article <Pine.NEB.3.95.960914230530.24754g-100000@broken.whitefang.com> you wrote: : *NOTICE: I AM NOT FLAMING* OK WE BELIVE YOU :) : A while back I ran a Linux box, and I must say it was alot faster than the : current FreeBSD I'm running (2.1.5). Now I realise I'm using an EIDE and : it isnt supported under the FreeBSD kernel (it only supports IDE so i bet : its much slower than it ought to be). But I can't get over how slow my : programs sometimes start up. This is done on a pentium 100 32 MB comp. From memory IDE creates a hardware interrupt every 4 bytes you transfer, and you are correct in noting that no EIDE stuff is supported, so this turns normal machines into pigs. The addition of a 2.5gb IDE to my all SCSI system for bulk storage saw hardware interrupts hit 50% under top durring transfers, and playing mod files with my gus max soundcard actually slowed down (i couldn't beleive it). Moral of the story? I'll leave that up to you :) Peter -- Peter Childs --- http://www.imforei.apana.org.au/~pjchilds Finger pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au for public PGP key Drag me, drop me, treat me like an object!
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