From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 14 13:07:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA04741 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 13:07:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from broken.whitefang.com (broken.whitefang.com [199.173.153.182]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA04730 for ; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 13:07:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (shadows@localhost) by broken.whitefang.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA25922 for ; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 23:10:05 +0300 (AST) X-Authentication-Warning: broken.whitefang.com: shadows owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 23:10:04 +0300 (AST) From: The ShadowS Know Reply-To: shadows@whitefang.com To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Memory allocation on freebsd Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk *NOTICE: I AM NOT FLAMING* A while back I ran a Linux box, and I must say it was alot faster than the current FreeBSD I'm running (2.1.5). Now I realise I'm using an EIDE and it isnt supported under the FreeBSD kernel (it only supports IDE so i bet its much slower than it ought to be). But I can't get over how slow my programs sometimes start up. This is done on a pentium 100 32 MB comp. I have a feeling it has something to do with the speed memory is allocated, or how it constantly drops memory into swap space. I have an 80 MB swap area. THis was all done by just hitting the auto-command when i spliced my Partition in the installation program. I decided to do that since it was my first installation of FreeBSD. Could I be doing something terribly wrong thats causing the slowness. Mind you I'm using it stand alone (only me). No other users or heavy load is bieng placed on it. On the other hand I love the robust standard kernel it has. When I develop something I dont have to spend hours porting it to other architectures since its _very_ standard (Linux had alot of wierd non-standard things). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ShadowS WhiteFang Unix Software Development Thamer Al-Herbish And Consultancy. shadows@whitefang.com Specialising in Custom Network Applications for Unix Systems. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------