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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!portc01.blue.aol.com!portc02.blue.aol.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD Date: 23 Dec 1996 22:31:56 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <59n18s$790@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <32B6AFB0.787F@pc.jaring.my> <5974tk$k01@fridge-nf0.shore.net> <m2ybew3puy.fsf@golfgod.raleigh.ibm.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.961219163846.9274A-100000@nanaimo.island.net> <59eicm$tgi@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33058 token@cip.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Matthias Buelow) wrote: > FreeBSD is significantly faster > than Linux when it comes to scheduling and virtual memory management. > Best test might be starting X and Netscape on such a limited environment > or doing heavy serial I/O while doing other things (and watch the CPS > rate :). 5 minute startup time for ``X -query <some_xdm_host>'' over a 115 kbps serial line on a 386/sx-16 5 MB RAM notebook. Can you beat this? :-) (For those for whom it's not obvious to: do you have a machine starting up X11 slower? ;-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)