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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: FreeBSD page better than Linux?
Date: 6 Sep 1995 00:13:13 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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nickkral@parker.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Nick Kralevich) 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.
There is a difference between "need/require more swap space" and
"utilize all available memory and swap space as cache", which you
are apparently missing.
Man vmstat from -current.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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