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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: FreeBSD page better than Linux?
Date: 06 Sep 1995 01:59:29 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
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In-reply-to: haertel@ichips.intel.com's message of 5 Sep 1995 22:18:52 GMT
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In article <42iicc$hlk@news.jf.intel.com> haertel@ichips.intel.com (Mike Haertel) writes:

   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?

Sounds like a lot of hear-say bull to me...

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  Michael L. VanLoon                                 michaelv@HeadCandy.com
       --<  Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x  >--
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