From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 12 13:34:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C101237B4EC for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 13:34:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.77.116] (helo=gateway.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 14SQbf-000KPD-00; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 21:34:00 +0000 Received: from buffy.raggedclown.net (buffy.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.2]) by gateway.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Gateway) with ESMTP id D597F33801; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 22:25:23 +0100 (CET) Received: by buffy.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mailhost, from userid 500) id 1F3D412B5D; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 22:22:02 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 22:22:02 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Josh Paetzel , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Explanation of speed of FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010212222202.A1074@raggedclown.net> References: <20010211150802.A2034@raggedclown.net> <01021108443800.00263@mark9.vladsempire.net> <20010211092148.E50667@mollari.cthul.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010211092148.E50667@mollari.cthul.hu>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 09:21:49AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 09:21:49AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > 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. > > > > 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 forgot to mention the mouse lag as well, that is also less (although not non-existant) on the FBSD machine. In fact I don't slow startup of apps so very irritating, but mouse lag is a soul destroyer.. ! Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message