From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 23 00:37:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA06543 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 00:37:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA06534 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 00:37:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA02245; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 00:36:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 00:36:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: rknebel@csrlink.net cc: FreeBSD questions mailinglist Subject: Re: memory In-Reply-To: <19971018094759.31730@my.domain> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 18 Oct 1997 rknebel@csrlink.net wrote: > Hi, > I am somewhat new to the unix world but have freebsd and redhat linux setup > on my home computer. > My setups are almost identical. Accelerated X, tkdesk, afterstep, and > netscape version 4. > When I have all of the above running and look at, top my memory and cpu usage > is about 20% lower with freebsd version 2.2.2 than with redhat 4.2. > I was just curious if there is something about freebsd that would account > for this difference ie the way it assigns or uses memory. > I have 64 megs of ram and a cyrix 150 proccesor with a matrox mill video > card with 4 megs of memory. The meat is probably in the OS-related details and how memory is counted. We'd have to see the whole process load on both machines to make a comparison with any semblance of reason. Linux and FreeBSD have radically different architectures, so a direct comparison isn't easily made. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major