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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!nntp.uio.no!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!news-ber1.dfn.de!news-lei1.dfn.de!news-nue1.dfn.de!uni-erlangen.de!winx03!atlantis!token From: token@cip.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Matthias Buelow) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD Date: 20 Dec 1996 17:28:54 GMT Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany Lines: 21 Message-ID: <59eicm$tgi@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> References: <32B6AFB0.787F@pc.jaring.my> <5974tk$k01@fridge-nf0.shore.net> <m2ybew3puy.fsf@golfgod.raleigh.ibm.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.961219163846.9274A-100000@nanaimo.island.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: wicx50.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32874 Charles Mott (cmott@srv.net) wrote: : (1) Since I use a 386/33 with 8mb of memory, I really notice the : superiority of FreeBSD over Linux in the area of paging and swapping. : There is much, much less disk thrashing. : (2) FreeBSD is reported to have much better scheduling efficiency for : large numbers of processes, although this is not an environment I work in : and can attest to. I must support this statement. I've installed both Linux (with 1.2.13 and newer kernels) and FreeBSD 2.1.0 and higher on an old 386dx-25, w/o cache, with IDE disks and 8MB RAM. FreeBSD is significantly faster than Linux when it comes to scheduling and virtual memory management. Best test might be starting X and Netscape on such a limited environment or doing heavy serial I/O while doing other things (and watch the CPS rate :). -- --token