From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 12 12: 0:22 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 0B0CB37B491 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 12:00:19 -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 14SP8r-0002L0-00; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 20:00:10 +0000 Received: from buffy.raggedclown.net (buffy.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.2]) by gateway.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Gateway) with ESMTP id 42C3433786; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 19:20:07 +0100 (CET) Received: by buffy.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mailhost, from userid 500) id D484E12B58; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 19:19:16 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 19:19:16 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: Josh Paetzel Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Explanation of speed of FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010212191916.A1471@raggedclown.net> References: <20010211150802.A2034@raggedclown.net> <01021108443800.00263@mark9.vladsempire.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <01021108443800.00263@mark9.vladsempire.net>; from jpaetzel@hutchtel.net on Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 08:39:37AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 08:39:37AM +0000, Josh Paetzel wrote: > 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. > > 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) Don;t think so. The video hardware is identicial.. ancient Trio S3, version of X86 is the same, and coincidentally they have the same make/model/size of hard disk !. It is really noticeable. Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message