Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 12:50:24 -0700 From: Studded <Studded@san.rr.com> To: "Mahendra D. Khandkar(SBO)" <mdk@physics.unipune.ernet.in> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Increasing FreeBSD performance Message-ID: <35350F80.77A43A46@san.rr.com> References: <199804160117.UAA04984@physics.unipune.ernet.in>
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Mahendra D. Khandkar(SBO) wrote: > > Dear Sir, > > I am having two systems , both are 90MHz Pentiums. On one I > have installed Linux (Slackware) and the other is having FreeBSD-2.1.7.1 > installed on it. But one with FreeBSD seems to be slower, i.e. programs > executed on it run considerably slowly. Programs on both the machines are > compiled with gcc. > > How can I raise the performance of FreeBSD machine? Like so many other things in life, the answer is "it depends." :) Which programs are you talking about? Are they the exact same program compiled on both systems? Are the programs heavily disk intensive? Linux' disk access subsystem uses a fast but unsafe method of access that could result in much file system damage if the system is shut down unexpectedly. FreeBSD uses a slower but much safer method that virtually ensures a healthy file system in almost all cases (except for physical disk damage). In other words, we can't help you without more details. Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud designer and maintainer of the world's largest Internet *** Relay Chat server with 5,328 simultaneous connections. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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