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From: hedley@inferno.cs.bris.ac.uk (David Hedley)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD page better than Linux?
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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.

I have also noticed this. I recently installed FreeBSD on an old 486 (8MB RAM
20MB Swap) to evaluate it (I current manage 10 Linux based PCs) and found
that my 28MB of virtual memory seemed to go a hell of a lot further with Linux 
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
made a swapfile, but I'm sure I never came close to running out of swap with Linux.

David
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