Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 18:26:08 +0100 From: Benjamin Walkenhorst <krylon@gmx.net> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Speed ? Message-ID: <20040121182608.155e71f2.krylon@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <400E9846.4C3D4FE7@holley.uklinux.net> References: <400E9846.4C3D4FE7@holley.uklinux.net>
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--Signature=_Wed__21_Jan_2004_18_26_08_+0100_gczRfFjgKkG=I3f/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:18:30 +0000 Julian Holley <julian@holley.uklinux.net> wrote: > Hi folks - I recently installed FreeBSD 5.2 on an IBM TP 390x on which > I have successfully run Linux 2.2.* for years now, but I notice that > BSD seems to be distinctly slowly - I mean in regards to user interact > - i.e. desktop development (as you can imagine it's not a server) .... > this is not what I expected, I thought FreeBSD would be about the same > or maybe faster (more snappy) - is this usual ? or do I have somat > wrong with my installation ? J I can't tell you for sure, but 5.2 is behaving a bit laggy in some respects on my Athlon XP 2400+ (2.000MHz actually) with 256MB RAM. In summer had installed 5.0 on a Pentium III 450, and it seemed fast like lightning compared to the (slightly modified) SuSE 7.3 Pro I had installed on that machine. But then, SuSE is not exactly know for speed. =) On the Athlon, I have Slackware 9.1 installed, too, and I am under the impression that 5.2 is just as fast, at best. =/ But in fact, it's behaving pretty well. There's just three things I explicitly notice: a) mounting NFS-shares from my second machine (Athlon 700, 160MB RAM, NetBSD 1.6.2_RC4) takes some time... With Linux 2.4, 2.6 and NetBSD 1.6.1, this did not take as long. b) starting graphical login at boot-time takes looooong. But then, I am using kdm (because of the useful shutdown/restart-buttons), which very well may just be slow to load. c) When I press a button in XMMS (1.2.8), it takes about half a second up to second before XMMS reacts. For example, if XMMS is in "pause" and I press "stop", it resumes playing music for half a second, before it stops... But all in all, I'm rather happy. The ease of configuring and updating the system just outweighs little performance issues for me. =) Kind regards, Benjamin --Signature=_Wed__21_Jan_2004_18_26_08_+0100_gczRfFjgKkG=I3f/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (NetBSD) iD8DBQFADrYw/JWwsvZUqOwRAkO1AJ9o8JGf/17nlCOHF0+nn2PnuCzJgQCfZ3Z6 Z6AZ3xXSNNH0l1TJm9b3zjg= =f3jY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Wed__21_Jan_2004_18_26_08_+0100_gczRfFjgKkG=I3f/--
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