Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 19:37:58 -0400 From: Dutch Collins <dutch@charm.net> To: Chris Fedde <cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us> Cc: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X under FreeBSD and Linux Message-ID: <37AA2056.CE1F9239@charm.net> References: <199908051846.MAA93853@fedde.littleton.co.us>
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Chris Fedde wrote: > > Hi, > > My comments are mixed in below... > > Evren Yurtesen writes: > Hello, > > I have a p200MMX with 24MB RAM and S3 Virge 2MB graphics adapter. > I use both FreeBSD and Windows on the same machine. > > But as far as I have found out Windows is working far faster than > FreeBSD. > > For example I run Netscape on Windows and FreeBSD (even the same > version) > and FreeBSD is getting frozen for a while and using hard drive so much > (possible swapping?) and after it everything is working slowly, and even > > With netscape running start "vmstat 5" in a separate terminal window. > When "FreeBSD is getting frozen" do you see much activity? That can > indicate a memory shortage. > > [...] > One of my friend told me that his Redhat Linux was working far faster > than Windows in his machine. Can this be true? > > Sure. Unix systems work best when there is enough core memory for > all active processes and their data. If you are seeing lots activity > in vmstat as you use your system then I'd say you are short of > memory. Using "ps -auxww | less" and looking at the RSS column I > calculate that my Xserver is using 18Meg and Netscape is using > 13Meg or 31Meg. If this was your case then your system will page > every time netscape wants to draw something on the window. > > Get as much memory as you can afford. If you have to choose get > lots of slow cheep memory rather than a small amount of fast > memory. > > by the way what can be wrong with my computer? > > The linux vs. windows vs. freebsd argument is a red herring. Both > Linux and FreeBSD will have poor performance when they are starved > for memory. Windows is performing better in your case because > netscape esentially has the whole computer to itself when it is > up. > > Evren Yurtesen > yurtesen@ispro.net.tr > __ > Chris Fedde <cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us> > 303 773 9134 > On may 486 at 100Mz, 32Mb, KDE+netscape == Win98+netscape. However, I like to crunch seti numbers, oops, netscape page faults like a M*^^%*. I need an article, reference book, something, about load balancing. Maybe I can find some RAM under the table but I don't think so. Icky stuff for me. Never had to run the VMS system I was on. -d To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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