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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD
Date: 23 Dec 1996 22:31:56 GMT
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token@cip.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Matthias Buelow) wrote:

>   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 :).

5 minute startup time for ``X -query <some_xdm_host>'' over a 115 kbps
serial line on a 386/sx-16 5 MB RAM notebook.  Can you beat this?

:-)

(For those for whom it's not obvious to: do you have a machine
starting up X11 slower? ;-)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)