On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 03:01:01PM -0800, Matthew wrote:
Cliff,
I know for a fact that Linux is faster than Solaris (almost 4 times as fast). However, with Freebsd you are right....But...Someone wrote an atricle on how to get a Linux system up to speed. Unfortuantly I do not know the link, and did not read as much as I should...What I do remember is that he was basically rebuilding the Kernel and dropping out a lot of the extras that he did not need.
Oh I am sure Linux can be speeded up, and like I say, I hear that 2.4 is faster. I think it was planned to re-write the memory management in Linux so that it followed more the BSD model, I don't know if this was done. I am interested in your comment on the relative speed of Solaris to Linux. May I ask what kind of applications you saw this difference in ? I use lots of different Unixes for my work, Solaris being the main platform, with Linux up-coming along with HP..AIX..and anything that has an X in the name somewhere. The Linux system hasn't been stretched yet. Cliff