From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 14 17:21: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 459F037B479 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 17:21:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 12049 invoked by uid 100); 15 Nov 2000 01:20:58 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14865.58618.338076.927242@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 19:20:58 -0600 (CST) To: "Karel J. Bosschaart" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Compatibility Modules for Linux (performance issues) In-Reply-To: <110137667@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Karel J. Bosschaart types: > > On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Trevor Legall wrote: > > > What is the performance hit in running programs for example Linux programs > > > using a compatibility module?? > FWIW, some time ago I did some comparison tests running the linux version of > Unreal Tournament (version 4.28) in Redhat 6.1 and in the linux compat mode > of FreeBSD, on the same machine. Since that PC also had Win'98, I did > the test there as well (using the Windows version of UT, of course). > The results of running 'utbench.dem', in frames per second: > > Windows'98: 15.2 FPS > RedHat 6.1: 15.8 FPS > FreeBSD 4.1: 14.3 FPS Got a question. According to my (limited) understanding of UT-like things, the frame rate depends as much on the video subsystem as anything else. So, what was the video software in use on Linux and FreeBSD, and how was it configured? Thanx,