Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 19:19:16 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: Josh Paetzel <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Explanation of speed of FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010212191916.A1471@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <01021108443800.00263@mark9.vladsempire.net>; from jpaetzel@hutchtel.net on Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 08:39:37AM %2B0000 References: <20010211150802.A2034@raggedclown.net> <01021108443800.00263@mark9.vladsempire.net>
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On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 08:39:37AM +0000, Josh Paetzel wrote: > On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > Mmm. I have made a recent observation. > > My X11 desktops run much faster on a P120 > > wih 64MB of memory under FreeBSD than under a > > P166 Linux machine with 160MB of memory. > > Are you sure it's not due to some difference in video card or > hard drive? I've never really noticed a substanitve difference in > the performance of linux and freebsd for a desktop application on > identical hardware. (except for my bias against linux of course) Don;t think so. The video hardware is identicial.. ancient Trio S3, version of X86 is the same, and coincidentally they have the same make/model/size of hard disk !. It is really noticeable. Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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