Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 17:14:37 -0400 From: Leo Papandreou <leo@talcom.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Increasing FreeBSD performance Message-ID: <19980416171437.36272@supersex.com> In-Reply-To: <35350F80.77A43A46@san.rr.com>; from Studded on Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 12:50:24PM -0700 References: <199804160117.UAA04984@physics.unipune.ernet.in> <35350F80.77A43A46@san.rr.com>
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On Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 12:50:24PM -0700, Studded wrote: > 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 Well, at least you arent using 2.0 :-) > > 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). > Also, I *believe* HAVE_FPU doesnt default to yes in /etc/make.conf for 2.1. You can also try mounting your partitions async. Between these two tweaks 2.1.7 feels at least as responsive as any Linux I have sat in front of. > In other words, we can't help you without more details. What he said. > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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