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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.intercon.com!panix!MathWorks.Com!uhog.mit.edu!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!ginger.lcs.mit.edu!wollman From: wollman@ginger.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Why is it so slow? Date: 27 May 1994 21:57:51 GMT Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Lines: 19 Message-ID: <2s5qcv$9ie@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> References: <CqGzrI.9vq@oea.hacktic.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: ginger.lcs.mit.edu In article <CqGzrI.9vq@oea.hacktic.nl>, <dan@oea.hacktic.nl> wrote: >and different incarnations of Linux on it. For the last two weeks I've >been experimenting with FreeBSD 1.1 Release on the same partition and I >have come to this conclusion: FreeBSD is by far the slowest OS I've ever >installed on this system. Anybody care to comment on why? Is it the new >virtual memory system? Just a wild guess.... eval `tset -s -Q` -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant