Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 11:10:23 -0500 From: hawk <hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Explanation of speed of FreeBSD Message-ID: <200102121610.f1CGAOj12277@fac13.ds.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 11 Feb 2001 09:21:49 PST." <20010211092148.E50667@mollari.cthul.hu>
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Kris Kried > Linux has some really poorly-performant code, possibly resulting from > poor device drivers in some cases (though they have some good ones > too, no doubt). I noticed that interactive performance on a Dell > machine was terrible under moderate disk load (it would terribly > degrade concurrent disk users, and I'd get mouse pointer lag of up to > 10 seconds in X). I see none of this having upgraded to FreeBSD on > the same hardware. I noticed serious subjective performance differences on my old K6-- under load of about 3, mouse and keyboard response became sluggish under X in linux, while even at 10 it was fine under FreeBSD hawk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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