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Date:      Thu, 23 Oct 1997 00:36:57 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        rknebel@csrlink.net
Cc:        FreeBSD questions mailinglist <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: memory
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971023003533.2144I-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19971018094759.31730@my.domain>

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On Sat, 18 Oct 1997 rknebel@csrlink.net wrote:

> Hi,
> I am somewhat new to the unix world but have freebsd and redhat linux setup
> on my home computer.
> My setups are almost identical. Accelerated X, tkdesk, afterstep, and
> netscape version 4.
> When I have all of the above running and look at, top my memory and cpu usage
> is about 20% lower with freebsd version 2.2.2 than with redhat 4.2.
> I was just curious if there is something about freebsd that would account
> for this difference ie the way it assigns or uses memory.
> I have 64 megs of ram and a cyrix 150 proccesor with a matrox mill video
> card with 4 megs of memory.

The meat is probably in the OS-related details and how memory is counted.
We'd have to see the whole process load on both machines to make a
comparison with any semblance of reason.  

Linux and FreeBSD have radically different architectures, so a direct
comparison isn't easily made.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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