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From: robert@humbug.org.au (Robert Brockway)
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Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
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Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 12:28:09 +1000
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Not my real address (mhall@homecom.com) wrote:
: I'm not convinced running
: badblocks -w /dev/sda7 100000
: on an about-to-be-added partition is "really stupid" but it brings Linux
: 2.0.28 to its knees. The system comes back when the command is done,
: but while it's running Linux can't move mail or change consoles or anything.
: Evidently the write buffer cache expands till there's no physical
: memory left for init or shell. Any command that tries to write a file
: all at once that's much bigger than physical memory can do roughly the
: same thing.
: Does FreeBSD have a similar weakness?
I suspect all Unices would suffer about the same. IO intensive activity,
is IO intensive even regardless of the OS running.
: My choice of Linux over FreeBSD was an accident: at the time I was giving
: up on SCO I couldn't find any information about FreeBSD while alt.os.linux
: was pretty busy. How many advocates for one or the other will admit their
: choice was similarly arbitrary? Linux has served me well for almost five
Yep, mine was arbitrary, and was made the night before I went into the
University to d/l the installation floppies.
: years. I'll bet FreeBSD would have done just as well. Let us not waste
: a minute on "the circular firing squad" when the real enemy is The Dark
: Side of the Force, in Redmond.
Agreed. FreeBSD wold have served me just as well.
We must unite against the Evil Empire :-)
Cheers,
-Robert
--Robert Brockway. email: robert@zen.humbug.org.au (preferred)
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