From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 22 06:24:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA11838 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 06:24:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.interlog.com (root@smtp.interlog.com [198.53.145.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA11831 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 06:24:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell1.interlog.com (paulg@shell1.interlog.com [207.34.202.8]) by smtp.interlog.com (8.8.3/8.7.6) with SMTP id JAA26587 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 09:23:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 09:23:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Paul Griffith To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Linux faster thasn FreeBSD Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I don;t have any hard facts to prove or disprove the subject line, but after I installed FreeBSD v2.1.6 (I know it's old - I'm still waiting for v2.2.2) it felt slower than OpenLinux Lite v1.1. FELT is the word here people, but over all OpenLinux felt faster and more responsive to any commands I gave it. I have a basic setup as follows i486DX2 - 66 ISA bus 32MB of RAM Promise VL EIDE Card Trident TGUI9440 based VL Video Card Adaptec 1522 SCSI Card FreeBSD is setup as fellows IDE Drive 2 (120MB in total) 50MB - / part 1 70MB - swap part 2 SCSI Drive 1 (500MB in total) 150MB /var filesystem 350MB /usr filesystem SCSI Drive 2 128MB Optical to used as a backup device Paul Griffith - paulg@interlog.com