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From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD page better than Linux?
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Date: Thu, 7 Sep 1995 12:30:44 GMT
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J Wunsch (j@bonnie.heep.sax.de) wrote:
: 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.
: 
: Do you have figures for this claim?

I doubt it.  I've run both systems and haven't noticed any appreciable
difference in memory usage.

Regards,

Chris
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