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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!daffy!uwvax!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!in1.uu.net!winternet.com!jkodadek From: jkodadek@winternet.com (J. Kodadek) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux Subject: Re: FreeBSD page better than Linux? Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux Date: 3 Sep 1995 17:45:52 GMT Organization: StarNet Communications, Inc Lines: 18 Message-ID: <42cpkg$pm5@blackice.winternet.com> References: <42cnbp$mit@blackice.winternet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: parka.winternet.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:5507 comp.os.linux:58863 Michael Bresnahan (gudu@winternet.com) wrote: : small size and simplicity. Lately someone told me that FreeBSD preforms : a lot better under stress (high page fault rate). This is attractive to : me because I trying to run XFree86, Netscape, gcc, and XEmacs all on my 8M : pentium system. Needless to say, it can be somewhat of a dog at times. : I attributed my problems to a) a lack of memory, b) a cheap disk drive and : or controller. I didn't consider that part of my problem could be the OS. a is a big part of it, for sure. 8 megs just isn't going to be fast doing what you are trying to do no matter what OS you have. Get another 8 or 16 megs if you can afford it before you spend the time installing and learning a new OS (time == money, right? :) jess kodadek jkodadek@winternet.com