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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:15986 comp.unix.advocacy:3994 comp.sys.sun.misc:17246 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:8051 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newshost.marcam.com!news.mathworks.com!news.duke.edu!gallatin From: gallatin@isds.duke.edu (Andrew Gallatin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit Subject: Re: What do people have against BSD (or Linux for that matter)? (was: Whither NeoSoft) Date: 27 Jan 1995 22:38:12 GMT Organization: Duke University, Durham, N.C. Lines: 35 Message-ID: <3gbskk$jva@news.duke.edu> References: <3g3s2k$6i@villa.fc.net> <3g8b6m$plu@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <3g9eev$egq@starbase.neosoft.com> <id.A9UG1.PDB@nmti.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: wyeth.isds.duke.edu Cc: In article <id.A9UG1.PDB@nmti.com>, Peter da Silva <peter@nmti.com> wrote: >In article <3g9eev$egq@starbase.neosoft.com>, >jpsb <jpsb@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> wrote: > >> But the 486 (33dx,scsi, >> 16meg ram, 256k cache). running Linux is *much* slower (compile >> times) than the slowest sparc 1. > >You must be doing something wrong. Seriously, my FreeBSD box is much better >at just plain running stuff than the Sparcstation-2s here. They have faster >graphics, I will admit, but for an ISP who cares? > >One thing that really helps ANY UNIX box is having more than one drive. If >you can put /tmp, swap, bin, and /home on separate spindles (or at least >have /tmp and /swap on a separate drive) you get radically better compile >times. Another possibility is that he's mounting the slow to compile sources via NFS. The last time I played with linux (6 months or so ago) it didn't do any caching of NFS, which made for painfully slow performance when doing anything via NFS. This, in fact, is what made me start using NetBSD - the BSDs have 'real' NFS. [To avoid flames, I should mention that I've not looked closely at linux since I started using NetBSD, and the above might have been fixed.] Drew ############################################################################## # Andrew Gallatin, Computer Project Manager # # Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences # # Box 90251, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0251 # ##############################################################################