From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 11 6: 9: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8653437B401 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 06:09:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.77.116] (helo=gateway.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #2) id 14RxBU-0002Tr-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 14:09:01 +0000 Received: from buffy.raggedclown.net (buffy.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.2]) by gateway.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Gateway) with ESMTP id AFC7633967 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 15:08:03 +0100 (CET) Received: by buffy.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mailhost, from userid 500) id 8E38612C4F; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 15:08:02 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 15:08:02 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Explanation of speed of FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010211150802.A2034@raggedclown.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mmm. I have made a recent observation. My X11 desktops run much faster on a P120 wih 64MB of memory under FreeBSD than under a P166 Linux machine with 160MB of memory. Can someone explain this, I am really curious! Is this purely down to memory management ? Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message