Re: Speed ?

From: Benjamin Walkenhorst (krylon_at_gmx.net)
Date: 01/21/04

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    Hello,

    On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:18:30 +0000
    Julian Holley <julian@holley.uklinux.net> wrote:

    > Hi folks - I recently installed FreeBSD 5.2 on an IBM TP 390x on which
    > I have successfully run Linux 2.2.* for years now, but I notice that
    > BSD seems to be distinctly slowly - I mean in regards to user interact
    > - i.e. desktop development (as you can imagine it's not a server) ....
    > this is not what I expected, I thought FreeBSD would be about the same
    > or maybe faster (more snappy) - is this usual ? or do I have somat
    > wrong with my installation ? J

    I can't tell you for sure, but 5.2 is behaving a bit laggy in some
    respects on my Athlon XP 2400+ (2.000MHz actually) with 256MB RAM.
    In summer had installed 5.0 on a Pentium III 450, and it seemed fast
    like lightning compared to the (slightly modified) SuSE 7.3 Pro I had
    installed on that machine. But then, SuSE is not exactly know for speed.
    =)
    On the Athlon, I have Slackware 9.1 installed, too, and I am
    under the impression that 5.2 is just as fast, at best. =/

    But in fact, it's behaving pretty well. There's just three things I
    explicitly notice:
    a) mounting NFS-shares from my second machine (Athlon 700, 160MB RAM,
    NetBSD 1.6.2_RC4) takes some time... With Linux 2.4, 2.6 and NetBSD
    1.6.1, this did not take as long.
    b) starting graphical login at boot-time takes looooong. But then, I am
    using kdm (because of the useful shutdown/restart-buttons), which very
    well may just be slow to load.
    c) When I press a button in XMMS (1.2.8), it takes about half a second
    up to second before XMMS reacts. For example, if XMMS is in "pause" and
    I press "stop", it resumes playing music for half a second, before it
    stops...

    But all in all, I'm rather happy. The ease of configuring and updating
    the system just outweighs little performance issues for me. =)

    Kind regards,

    Benjamin

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