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From: Steve Dunham <dunham@notung.msu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD ... (FreeBSD extremely mem/swap hungry)
Date: 28 May 1996 14:36:17 -0400
Organization: Michigan State University
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roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) writes:

> Uh ? You'll have this  penalty only if you link  with the DES libcrypt. The
> MD4 libcrypt uses less memory. 
> 
> The VM subsystem in Linux  and FreeBSD are  very different although I think
> Linux recently got an unified VM/buffer cache like we do since post 2.0. It
> is true that FreeBSD  needs more swap than  Linux ; it  is an artifact from
> the VM system. I also   think that our VM  system  is more advanced but   I
> haven't compared line by line.

Don't bother, by the time you got done with the comparison, they will
both have changed. :)

Steve