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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!foxhound.dsto.gov.au!fang.dsto.gov.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!basser.cs.su.oz.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!sgiblab!cs.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: Why is XFREE SOOOOOO slow on Free BSD? Date: 18 Feb 1994 03:56:17 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 35 Message-ID: <2k1e91$a31@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <scottf.761296536@connected.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <scottf.761296536@connected.com>, Scott Farrand <scottf@goshen.connected.com> wrote: >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. Are both machines using the same VLB video card? I find it very difficult to imagine a big difference in speed since during the XFree86 test cycle there were little to no differences in video speed on equivalent hardware. (The operating system made little difference in the X performance) An easy way to test this is to switch hard-drives on the machine and see what happens. :-) >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) The difference there is due to shared binaries vs. static binaries. The next version of FreeBSD will have smaller binaries due to shared libraries as well. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | Graduating May '94 with a BS in EE home #: (406) 586-0579 | - looking for work in CS/EE field.