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From: peter@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Whats wrong with Linux networking ???
Date: 13 Aug 1994 19:38:54 -0500
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In article <1994Aug13.012953.5809@cs.brown.edu>,
Mark Weaver <mhw@cs.brown.edu> wrote:
>However, regardless of the filesystem, I have found that when I
>have run Linux, it hardly ever thrashes with my 16mb, whereas NetBSD
>thrashes very easily.  They must be doing something right.

What are you doing in your 16MB? I've only had it thrash once (and that's
because I was running two X servers, using Ghostscript to format a bunch of
dvi files, unpacking news, and running Mosaic, when I kicked off a "make"
and tried to go back to Mosaic)... and I'm always using gobs of swap.

Off course I'm running FreeBSD not NetBSD, but I hardly expect that NetBSD
is any less competant here.