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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: FreeBSD page better than Linux?
Date: 12 Sep 1995 10:24:43 +0200
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David Hedley <David.Hedley@bris.ac.uk> wrote:
>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.
Upgrade your XFree86 to 3.1.2. It's linked against -lgnumalloc again
there, which saves you alot of memory, in particular for the X server.
Btw., are you still maintaining the pcemu code? If so, i've got a
couple of comments on it. (You can also try out to use FreeBSD's port
of pcemu, you'll find my changes there in the patch directory.)
Netscape is a known memory hog.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)