> > Well, after very short time, both boxes responded to console switchings
> > and things like that, but trying to run something like "ps", "w",
> > "uptime" put machine quite on hold (about 2 minutes). The thing is that
> > Linux finished runnig commands about 3 times faster than FreeBSD. What
> > the heck does that suppose to mean?! I thought FreeBSD whould kick linux
> > butt?
>
> FreeBSD spawned many more processes than Linux before it started being
> unable to fork and was thus running many more live copies of the program?
> You haven't really given/collected enough information to decide.
Linux 2.2.x still supports only 1024 processes I believe. Rumour goes that
2.4 supports 16384 processes, so poster should try a 2.3.99pre<x> kernel.
P.s. this is one of the weirdest benchmarks I have ever seen :-)
Marco van de Voort ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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