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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!newspump.wustl.edu!news.ecn.bgu.edu!willis.cis.uab.edu!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!chinet!news From: mcs.com@compu.mcs.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD page better than Linux? Sender: news@chinet.chinet.com Message-ID: <NEWTNews.810257869.20278.les@compu.mcs.com> Date: Mon, 4 Sep 1995 23:35:57 GMT Lines: 37 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII References: <42cnbp$mit@blackice.winternet.com> Nntp-Posting-Host: compu.pr.mcs.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX X-Newsreader: NEWTNews & Chameleon -- TCP/IP for MS Windows from NetManage Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:5481 comp.os.linux:58854 In article <42cnbp$mit@blackice.winternet.com>, <gudu@winternet.com> writes: > Xref: chinet comp.os.linux:57241 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:6820 > Path: chinet!pagesat.net!news.cerf.net!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!in2.uu.net!winternet.com!news > From: Michael Bresnahan <gudu@winternet.com> > Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux > Subject: FreeBSD page better than Linux? > Date: 3 Sep 1995 17:07:05 GMT > Organization: Bouncing Fried Hairy Bleefjuice > Lines: 16 > Message-ID: <42cnbp$mit@blackice.winternet.com> > NNTP-Posting-Host: gudu.winternet.com > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; Linux 1.2.8 i586) > X-URL: news:comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc > > I have been running Linux for a year or so now. I was always under the > impression that performance was one of it strengths due to its relative > small size and simplicity. Lately someone told me that FreeBSD preforms > a lot better under stress (high page fault rate). This is attractive to > me because I trying to run XFree86, Netscape, gcc, and XEmacs all on my 8M > pentium system. Needless to say, it can be somewhat of a dog at times. > I attributed my problems to a) a lack of memory, b) a cheap disk drive and > or controller. I didn't consider that part of my problem could be the OS. > > Could anyone colaborate this info? It might save me many hours of frustration > trying to install and learn a new OS. It is worth a try. It is not well supported as Linux and not user firendly if you are used to system V. But I would say give it a shot on a small partition since it is not costly. Good Luck, Sam sam@chinet.chinet.com