From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 14 9: 0:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gw.carpoolbc.com (cr45465-a.abtsfd1.bc.wave.home.com [24.113.176.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE4CB37B4CF for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 09:00:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (roop@localhost) by gw.carpoolbc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA25220; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 09:00:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roop@gw.carpoolbc.com) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 09:00:31 -0800 (PST) From: Roop Nanuwa To: Trevor Legall Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compatibility Modules for Linux (performance issues) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In my own experience and from anecdotal stories from others, FreeBSD has no performance hit when running Linux programs. Actually, from everything, I know/hear, Linux programs actually run faster on FreeBSD than on native Linux. This is because FreeBSD itself is a faster OS than most Linii (or Linuxes?) and the Linux compability is just an extremely thin wrapper on top of it. Don't get me wrong here though, I have yet to see any benchmarks/statistics to factually prove this. All of my reasons to believe this to be true is because of personal experience and anecdotal stories from others. RSN On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Trevor Legall wrote: > Compatibility modules enable programs for other operating systems to run on > FreeBSD, including programs for Linux, SCO, NetBSD, and BSDI. > > What is the performance hit in running programs for example Linux programs > using a compatibility module?? > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message