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From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi ASAMI)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: Why is XFREE SOOOOOO slow on Free BSD?
Date: 15 Feb 94 03:29:18
Organization: CS Div. - EECS, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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In-reply-to: scottf@goshen.connected.com's message of 14 Feb 1994 23:22:58 PST
In article <scottf.761296536@connected.com>
scottf@goshen.connected.com (Scott Farrand) writes:
* I have two machines that I'm working with (in a computer lab...).
* One machine is running slackware 1.1.2 (Linux), and the other
* is running FreeBSD 1.0.2. Hardware wise the machines are "identical"
* both are 486/33's with 8mb ram, 1mb VLB video card, and VLB IDE controller
* connected to a conner CP30254.
*
* The Program I've noticed the speed difference with is xlock (screen saver)
* running swarm... on Linux its REALLY fast, and it kinda "Chuggs" on Free
* BSD... the only thing I can think might be a problem is that the binaries
* on FreeBSD are MUCH bigger than on Linux... (EG XF86_SVGA is 300+K larger
* on FreeBSD's version... etc)
XF86_SVGA was *very* slow on my machine before I got an accelerated
video card (Orchid 1280+ VLB). Like, if I do "ls -l", it was giving
me headaches. Now, it's very fast, I don't think it's a bottleneck
for any program (mine is 486/66, XF86_S3, FreeBSD-1.0.2).
Is it only swarm that is slow, or is the server slow in general? I
can't really tell since I don't know what video card you have (and
probaly won't be able to tell even if I know ;), but it might be that
you are using accelerated mode in Linux and non-accelerated mode in
FreeBSD.
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o o Satoshi Asami
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