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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!warwick!bsmail!inferno.cs.bris.ac.uk!hedley From: hedley@inferno.cs.bris.ac.uk (David Hedley) Subject: Re: FreeBSD page better than Linux? Message-ID: <DEqwB7.Gxn@uns.bris.ac.uk> Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux Sender: usenet@uns.bris.ac.uk (Usenet news owner) Nntp-Posting-Host: inferno.cs.bris.ac.uk Reply-To: David.Hedley@bris.ac.uk Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Bristol, England X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <42cnbp$mit@blackice.winternet.com> <42iejc$hkl@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 14:30:42 GMT Lines: 19 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:6050 comp.os.linux:58992 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. I have also noticed this. I recently installed FreeBSD on an old 486 (8MB RAM 20MB Swap) to evaluate it (I current manage 10 Linux based PCs) and found that my 28MB of virtual memory seemed to go a hell of a lot further with Linux than with FreeBSD. With a (Mono) X server, 2 xterms, emacs and Netscape running, there's virtually no swap space free! Still, it's not a great problem - I just made a swapfile, but I'm sure I never came close to running out of swap with Linux. David -- David Hedley (David.Hedley@bris.ac.uk) http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~hedley/ finger hedley@cs.bris.ac.uk for PGP key Computer Graphics Group | University of Bristol | UK *** All opinions expressed are mine and mine alone ***