From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 26 02:55:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA19331 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jul 1996 02:55:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from deadpup.offnet (root@cmh40.coil.com [198.4.94.240]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA19323 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 1996 02:55:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from deadpup (paul@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by deadpup.offnet (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id GAA03852 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 1996 06:06:36 -0400 Message-ID: <31F898AB.1DE87A12@coil.com> Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 06:06:35 -0400 From: "Paul J. Mech" Organization: Contract Programmer/Consultant X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (X11; I; Linux 1.2.13 i486) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Considering FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk To all who have responded, thanks very much for your comments. I am definitely going to try installing FreeBSD. I have a few technical questions though. 0) When Linux runs out of virtual memory, it crashes. What is FreeBSD's behavior under these conditions? 1) What is the standard maximum on the number of open files (system wide and per user) on FreeBSD? How severe is the penalty for increasing these? 2) Linux can use any available free memory for file buffers, so that under light loads some files may end up being accessed entirely from memory. Does FreeBSD do this, or does it do a fixed pool of buffers. Thanks in Advance, pjm -----------------------------+------------------------------------------------ Paul J. Mech | paul@coil.com ... or ... | ;-) for the humor impaired. pmech@freenet.columbus.oh.us | -----------------------------+------------------------------------------------