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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!brighton.openmarket.com!decwrl!tribune.usask.ca!skorpio3!bwm260 From: bwm260@skorpio3.usask.ca (Bradley W Mazurek) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD ... Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Date: 11 May 1996 00:47:28 GMT Organization: University of Saskatchewan Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4n0o30$f5n@tribune.usask.ca> References: <3188C1E2.45AE@onramp.net> <4mnsc5$6qo@sundial.sundial.net> <4n0b6c$k7b@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: skorpio3.usask.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:19169 comp.os.linux.misc:103029 Brian Wheeler (root@fms.indiana.edu) wrote: : In article <4mr1pk$cdi@dyson.iquest.net>, : root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) writes: : >FreeBSD does a very fast workstation also. Under load, not much : >else competes with it including Linux. Under light duty, both Linux and : >FreeBSD have their advantages -- but I notice performance problems most : >when loading becomes an issue, don't you??? : I'd be curious to hear the problems you have with linux under load that : you don't have under FreeBSD. I've been running my Linux box under pretty : heavy compiler loads for a while now, and Its not so much as hiccupped. Out of curiosity, I would like to know what other peoples experiences are with heavy loads under both FreeBSD and Linux. Under FreeBSD (2.1R? or was it 2.0.5?) I had my machine (P5-90 16MB RAM) up to a load average in the low 200's. Why? Just to see if I could crash it and to see how high it would go. The OS was fine (sluggish, of course) until about 230-240, when it had to start swapping. That basically killed the machines performance (EIDE Hard Drive). Can you say "thrashing"? :) Take Care, Brad Mazurek -- bwm260@cs.usask.ca