From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 11 6:45:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 059F037B401 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 06:45:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from mark9.vladsempire.net (hutch-392.hutchtel.net [206.10.68.92]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id IAA25451; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 08:45:21 -0600 (CST) From: Josh Paetzel To: Cliff Sarginson , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Explanation of speed of FreeBSD Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 08:39:37 +0000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" References: <20010211150802.A2034@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <20010211150802.A2034@raggedclown.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01021108443800.00263@mark9.vladsempire.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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