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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:12371 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3208 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!swidir.switch.ch!newsfeed.ACO.net!Austria.EU.net!EU.net!uunet!brunix!mhw From: mhw@cs.brown.edu (Mark Weaver) Subject: Re: Whats wrong with Linux networking ??? Message-ID: <1994Aug15.034939.20997@cs.brown.edu> Sender: news@cs.brown.edu Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science References: <RSANDERS.94Aug9003813@hrothgar.mindspring.com> <1994Aug13.012953.5809@cs.brown.edu> <32jp2u$bpb@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <32ll52$n7d@quagga.ru.ac.za> Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 03:49:39 GMT Lines: 37 In article <32ll52$n7d@quagga.ru.ac.za>, Geoff Rehmet <csgr@cs.ru.ac.za> wrote: >In <32jp2u$bpb@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> peter@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Peter da Silva) writes: > >>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. Typically running X, compiling, and perhaps dragging around xterms or reading manual pages at the same time. To be honest, I'm not exactly sure that it's thrashing, but I get one hell of a lot of disk activity. I always get significant disk activity from compiling, even though my /tmp is a ramdisk. On Linux, while doing the same thing, there is hardly any disk activity at all. I always think something's wrong when compiling under Linux because I don't hear the characteristic disk chattering that I associate with compiling. >>Off course I'm running FreeBSD not NetBSD, but I hardly expect that NetBSD >>is any less competant here. >What suspect is that Mark may be running an older version of NetBSD, >(0.8 or 0.9) which does not have shared libraries. Shlibs tend to help >a lot as far as efficient memory usage goes. Actually, I'm running NetBSD 1.0_BETA with shared libs. Mark -------------------------------------------------------------------- Email: Mark_Weaver@brown.edu | Brown University PGP Key: finger mhw@cs.brown.edu | Dept of Computer Science