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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!convex!convex!constellation!rex!ben From: ben@rex.uokhsc.edu (Benjamin Z. Goldsteen) Subject: Re: Why is it so slow? Message-ID: <CqHFDB.4GJ@rex.uokhsc.edu> Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 22:19:59 GMT Reply-To: benjamin-goldsteen@uokhsc.edu References: <CqGzrI.9vq@oea.hacktic.nl> Organization: Health Sciences Center, University of Oklahoma Lines: 25 dan@oea.hacktic.nl writes: >I have an old 386sx/20 4 MB computer with a free 100 MB partition that I >use to try out operating systems. I've installed 386bsd 0.1, Coherent 4.0 >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? Is the problem that it is slower than the others or too slow? I can tell you that I have a 386SX-20 with 5 MB of RAM and it performs reasonably well with FreeBSD. I am doing some benchmarks against Slackware 1.20 (Linux 1.0.8) so we'll get some numbers soon. Are you doing number crunching? I believe FreeBSD 1.1 Release's math emulation and library are not-up-to-par, yet. >PS. All my testing is done under very light load where it shouldn't even >start to swap. Are you saying it is swaping all the time? -- Benjamin Z. Goldsteen