From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 7 22:43:38 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC47B37B401 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 2003 22:43:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1A9743F85 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 2003 22:43:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h385hXae018606; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 17:43:33 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h385hX8Z018605; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 17:43:33 +1200 (NZST) Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 17:43:33 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Rob Gallimore Message-ID: <20030408054333.GA18556@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <3E925731.3C47E738@classicnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E925731.3C47E738@classicnet.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: solved my odd networking problem now a new interesting question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 05:43:39 -0000 On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 11:59:29PM -0500, Rob Gallimore wrote: [...] > One question I did have was this... I have noticed that > programs origionally intended to run on Linux, seem to run faster on > FreeBSD under the "Linux Binary Compatibility" thing. Why is this? The standard answer used to be was that FreeBSD had a better VM system, resulting in a `slicker' system, even with the overhead of translating Linux syscalls into FreeBSD syscalls; but I had thought that the Linux VM system had improved since then... -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Beer. Now there's a temporary solution." - Homer Simpson