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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!news.zeitgeist.net!usenet From: "Amancio Hasty, Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD page better than Linux? Date: 6 Sep 1995 02:34:22 GMT Organization: TLGnet, a division of RGNet, Inc. Lines: 31 Message-ID: <42j1be$4c1@kadath.zeitgeist.net> References: <42cnbp$mit@blackice.winternet.com> <42iejc$hkl@agate.berkeley.edu> <42iicc$hlk@news.jf.intel.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: rah.star-gate.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) X-URL: news:42iicc$hlk@news.jf.intel.com USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND root 10658 8.4 9.2 3204 2800 ?? S 31Dec69 0:02.56 X :0 (XF86_S3) Thats how big my FreeBSD XF86_S3 server is with twm and two xterms.... I really doubt that the Linux version is going to be that much different and my guess is going to be bigger 8) Amancio haertel@ichips.intel.com (Mike Haertel) wrote: >In article <42iejc$hkl@agate.berkeley.edu>, >Nick Kralevich <nickkral@parker.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: >>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. > >If this is true, does anyone have any idea to what extent it might be >because FreeBSD is still using the ancient powers-of-two Caltech malloc? >-- >Mike Haertel <haertel@ichips.intel.com> -- Amancio Hasty Hasty Software Consulting Services Tel: 415-495-3046 Fax: 415-495-3046 Cellular: 415-309-8434 e-mail: hasty@star-gate.com Powered by FreeBSD