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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!news.ssd.intel.com!news.jf.intel.com!haertel From: haertel@ichips.intel.com (Mike Haertel) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux Subject: Re: FreeBSD page better than Linux? Date: 5 Sep 1995 22:18:52 GMT Organization: Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA Lines: 10 Message-ID: <42iicc$hlk@news.jf.intel.com> References: <42cnbp$mit@blackice.winternet.com> <42iejc$hkl@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: pdx404.intel.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:5477 comp.os.linux:58851 In article <42iejc$hkl@agate.berkeley.edu>, Nick Kralevich <nickkral@parker.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: >In addition to what everyone else has said, one thing to keep in mind >is that FreeBSD apps usually take more memory than Linux apps. >FreeBSD seems to need/require a lot more swap space than Linux does. If this is true, does anyone have any idea to what extent it might be because FreeBSD is still using the ancient powers-of-two Caltech malloc? -- Mike Haertel <haertel@ichips.intel.com>