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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!asami From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi ASAMI) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: Why is XFREE SOOOOOO slow on Free BSD? Date: 15 Feb 94 03:29:18 Organization: CS Div. - EECS, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 Lines: 33 Message-ID: <ASAMI.94Feb15032918@forgery.cs.berkeley.edu> References: <scottf.761296536@connected.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: forgery.cs.berkeley.edu In-reply-to: scottf@goshen.connected.com's message of 14 Feb 1994 23:22:58 PST In article <scottf.761296536@connected.com> scottf@goshen.connected.com (Scott Farrand) writes: * I have two machines that I'm working with (in a computer lab...). * One machine is running slackware 1.1.2 (Linux), and the other * is running FreeBSD 1.0.2. Hardware wise the machines are "identical" * both are 486/33's with 8mb ram, 1mb VLB video card, and VLB IDE controller * connected to a conner CP30254. * * The Program I've noticed the speed difference with is xlock (screen saver) * running swarm... on Linux its REALLY fast, and it kinda "Chuggs" on Free * BSD... the only thing I can think might be a problem is that the binaries * on FreeBSD are MUCH bigger than on Linux... (EG XF86_SVGA is 300+K larger * on FreeBSD's version... etc) XF86_SVGA was *very* slow on my machine before I got an accelerated video card (Orchid 1280+ VLB). Like, if I do "ls -l", it was giving me headaches. Now, it's very fast, I don't think it's a bottleneck for any program (mine is 486/66, XF86_S3, FreeBSD-1.0.2). Is it only swarm that is slow, or is the server slow in general? I can't really tell since I don't know what video card you have (and probaly won't be able to tell even if I know ;), but it might be that you are using accelerated mode in Linux and non-accelerated mode in FreeBSD. --- o o Satoshi Asami Form follows Function. ^ (asami@CS.Berkeley.EDU) Tel: (510)547-0336 (home) Computer Science Div., Dept. of EECS (510)642-1845 (office) University of California at Berkeley