Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 08:39:37 +0000 From: Josh Paetzel <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> To: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Explanation of speed of FreeBSD Message-ID: <01021108443800.00263@mark9.vladsempire.net> In-Reply-To: <20010211150802.A2034@raggedclown.net> References: <20010211150802.A2034@raggedclown.net>
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On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > 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 > Are you sure it's not due to some difference in video card or hard drive? I've never really noticed a substanitve difference in the performance of linux and freebsd for a desktop application on identical hardware. (except for my bias against linux of course) Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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