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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!sdd.hp.com!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sun4nl!nikhefk!eloy From: eloy@paramount.nikhefk.nikhef.nl (Eloy Domingos) Subject: Re: Why is XFREE SOOOOOO slow on Free BSD? Message-ID: <1994Feb17.154731.28287@paramount.nikhefk.nikhef.nl> Organization: NIKHEFK References: <scottf.761296536@connected.com> <SWILDNER.94Feb17031008@channelz.GUN.de> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 15:47:31 GMT Lines: 17 In article <scottf.761296536@connected.com> scottf@goshen.connected.com (Scott Farrand) writes: > 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) > Any ideas? Maybe you have a different app-defaults file? In the xlock app-defaults file you can set timings and delays etc. I've seen different installations, some where swarm ran fast, some where a lot of delay was put it (so that the machine is not loaded unnecessarily). Doesn't anyone have xstone ratings of Linux vs. FreeBSD?