Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 09:43:32 -0700 From: "Pedro Giffuni S," <giffunip@asme.org> To: Paul Griffith <paulg@interlog.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux faster thasn FreeBSD Message-ID: <3426A034.76B7@asme.org> References: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970922091207.11972B-100000@shell1.interlog.com>
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You are right... 1) FreeBSD 2.1.6 is very old and has poor performance when compared to 2.2.x. 2) Linux usually FEELS faster in a single user environment, but it is no match to a recent version of FreeBSD with many users and/or intensive tasks. Additionally, it seems like you chose the slowest disk for a swap partition and you probably didn't fine tune the kernel ;-). Pedro. Paul Griffith wrote: > > I don;t have any hard facts to prove or disprove the subject line, but > after I installed FreeBSD v2.1.6 (I know it's old - I'm still waiting for > v2.2.2) it felt slower than OpenLinux Lite v1.1. FELT is the word here > people, but over all OpenLinux felt faster and more responsive to any > commands I gave it. I have a basic setup as follows > > i486DX2 - 66 > ISA bus > 32MB of RAM > Promise VL EIDE Card > Trident TGUI9440 based VL Video Card > Adaptec 1522 SCSI Card > > FreeBSD is setup as fellows > > IDE Drive 2 (120MB in total) 50MB - / part 1 > 70MB - swap part 2 > > SCSI Drive 1 (500MB in total) 150MB /var filesystem > 350MB /usr filesystem > > SCSI Drive 2 128MB Optical to used as a backup device > > Paul Griffith - paulg@interlog.com
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