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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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Message-ID: <MICHAELV.95Sep5185933@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>
References: <42cnbp$mit@blackice.winternet.com> <42iejc$hkl@agate.berkeley.edu>
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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
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