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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!nickkral From: nickkral@parker.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Nick Kralevich) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux Subject: Re: FreeBSD page better than Linux? Date: 5 Sep 1995 21:14:20 GMT Organization: Electrical Engineering Computer Science Department, University of California at Berkeley Lines: 18 Message-ID: <42iejc$hkl@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <42cnbp$mit@blackice.winternet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: parker.eecs.berkeley.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:5428 comp.os.linux:58838 In article <42cnbp$mit@blackice.winternet.com>, Michael Bresnahan <gudu@winternet.com> wrote: >I have been running Linux for a year or so now. I was always under the >impression that performance was one of it strengths due to its relative >small size and simplicity. In addition to what everyone else has said, one thing to keep in mind is that FreeBSD apps usually take more memory than Linux apps. FreeBSD seems to need/require a lot more swap space than Linux does. My suggestion is to stick with Linux and add more RAM. No matter how much optimizing you try to do with the swapping, it won't beat a system with more RAM, no matter what operating system it is. Take care, -- Nick Kralevich nickkral@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu