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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!matlock.mindspring.com!usenet From: Robert Sanders <rsanders@mindspring.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux Subject: Re: FreeBSD page better than Linux? Date: 11 Sep 1995 11:29:05 -0400 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises, Inc. Lines: 12 Sender: rsanders@hrothgar.mindspring.com Message-ID: <87ag8b1tfi.fsf@hrothgar.mindspring.com> References: <42cnbp$mit@blackice.winternet.com> <42iejc$hkl@agate.berkeley.edu> <DEqwB7.Gxn@uns.bris.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: hrothgar.mindspring.com In-reply-to: hedley@inferno.cs.bris.ac.uk's message of Mon, 11 Sep 1995 14:30:42 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.0 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:5731 comp.os.linux:58922 On Mon, 11 Sep 1995 14:30:42 GMT, hedley@inferno.cs.bris.ac.uk (David Hedley) said: > than with FreeBSD. With a (Mono) X server, 2 xterms, emacs and Netscape running, > there's virtually no swap space free! Still, it's not a great problem - I just I noticed the same, then I noticed my Netscape had grown to 28 MB. I don't know if that's caused by a leak or bad old BSD malloc(), but it's certainly larger than Netscape ever got under Linux. Even if my FreeBSD box runs out of swap more quickly, I've certainly found that it performs better. -- Robert