Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 09:21:49 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Josh Paetzel <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> Cc: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Explanation of speed of FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010211092148.E50667@mollari.cthul.hu> 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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--6Vw0j8UKbyX0bfpA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. > >=20 > > Can someone explain this, I am really curious! > > Is this purely down to memory management ? > >=20 > > Cliff > >=20 >=20 > 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) Linux has some really poorly-performant code, possibly resulting from poor device drivers in some cases (though they have some good ones too, no doubt). I noticed that interactive performance on a Dell machine was terrible under moderate disk load (it would terribly degrade concurrent disk users, and I'd get mouse pointer lag of up to 10 seconds in X). I see none of this having upgraded to FreeBSD on the same hardware. Kris --6Vw0j8UKbyX0bfpA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6hsosWry0BWjoQKURAlTOAJwLHkDtxgAQvUJlXhy/QS5vQTrpDACbBKnY V0utYMjvrnYdtIJ9TxihIm8= =0xfc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6Vw0j8UKbyX0bfpA-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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