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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!EU.net!sun4nl!hacktic!oea.hacktic.nl!dan From: dan@oea.hacktic.nl Subject: Why is it so slow? Organization: The Humble Abode Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 16:42:54 GMT X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Message-ID: <CqGzrI.9vq@oea.hacktic.nl> Lines: 15 I have an old 386sx/20 4 MB computer with a free 100 MB partition that I use to try out operating systems. I've installed 386bsd 0.1, Coherent 4.0 and different incarnations of Linux on it. For the last two weeks I've been experimenting with FreeBSD 1.1 Release on the same partition and I have come to this conclusion: FreeBSD is by far the slowest OS I've ever installed on this system. Anybody care to comment on why? Is it the new virtual memory system? PS. All my testing is done under very light load where it shouldn't even start to swap. -- |< Dan Naas dan@oea.hacktic.nl >| +--------------------------------------+