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From: taob@io.org (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: io.computers,io.general,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Performance differences between Linux and FreeBSD
Date: 3 Feb 1995 07:10:25 -0500
Organization: Internex Online (io.org) Data: 416-363-4151 Voice: 416-363-8676
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In article <JNIALS.95Jan28214433@pentagon.io.com>, Jon R. Nials <jnials@pentagon.io.com> wrote:
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>What other differences have you seen in the performance of Linux vs. FreeBSD. I've been thinking about switching, but I've no idea of head to head performance differences. Especially with X installed.
NFS is definitely much, much faster in FreeBSD 2.0 than it is in
Linux 1.1.81. XFree86 3.1 *seems* faster on Linux, but I'm sure about
that. For example: logging out of my window manager and retunring to
the xlogin screen takes a few seconds in FreeBSD. In Linux, I'm there
in about a second. I ran a benchmark simulation (my own code, relies
almost exclusively on the OS's ability to manage vast quantities of
small memory blocks) under both: Linux is about twice as fast. I get
slightly better disk performance out of FreeBSD, but probably not
enough to be of any statistical significance. I had recompiled my
Linux kernel and stripped out the unneccessary junk before giving it
the boot though. My FreeBSD kernel is the same bulky one that comes
in the binary distribution. That may affect performance.
Overall, I don't think a user will notice a difference, except for
in certain very specific cases (like my simulation code). X is still
pretty snappy under FreeBSD (486/66, 16 megs) and even large apps like
xv 3.10 come up in no time at all. I personally prefer FreeBSD over
Linux because of its BSD 4.4Lite origins, but YMMV. If you are happy
with one or the other, don't bother switching unless you're a
masochist like me and *like* installing OS's. :)
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