> does FreeBSD deallocate pages that are unused.
>
> NetBSD does not. if you create 100MB file on mfs and delete it, VM size of
> mfs is still over 100MB. while it will get swapped out it's a kind of
> nonsense IMHO
FreeBSD tries to swap out idle pages. That means that you'll have more
physical me
I have used a single 256MB mfs on FreeBSD for months without any problem.
I was not doing heavy IO on it, it was used in a /tmp fashion and most of the
time was swapped out, going down to 8MB resident size at times.
does FreeBSD deallocate pages that are unused.
NetBSD does not. if you create 100MB
I have used a single 256MB mfs on FreeBSD for months without any problem.
I was not doing heavy IO on it, it was used in a /tmp fashion and most of the
time was swapped out, going down to 8MB resident size at times.
> softdeps in NetBSD is very buggy. putting very high load like deleting
> huge tr
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
i installed FreeBSD once to do quick performance tests, and at least in
disk I/O and fair scheduling it's MUCH better (tested 4.10 and 5.1).
It's nice to be welcomed by higher performance when you switch OSes. :-)
while high performance is always cool, stable performance is
>> 2) can i compile kernel with -march=pentium,pentium[234] -O2
>> optimization? in NetBSD 2.0 doing -march=pentium produces
>> kernel that doesn't boot at all, just resets.
2.0 is always under develpoment and not yet released. I don't see the
problem with 1.6.2.
>> 4) is IPv6 working well? (i me
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 20:30:10 +0200 (CEST)
Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i want to go to FreeBSD instead of NetBSD on my i386 machines because of
> all "new features" :( introduced in NetBSD after 1.5 mostly crashing
> softdeps, strange memory/unified disk cache management (large wr
> -Original Message-
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> Wojciech Puchar
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 1:30 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: FreeBSD beginner (NetBSD advanced)
[snip]
> my questions:
>
> 1) what is Buf and Cache in top exactly? why buf
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 08:30:10PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> i want to go to FreeBSD instead of NetBSD on my i386 machines because of
> all "new features" :( introduced in NetBSD after 1.5 mostly crashing
> softdeps, strange memory/unified disk cache management (large writing to
> file almo
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
i installed FreeBSD once to do quick performance tests, and at least in
disk I/O and fair scheduling it's MUCH better (tested 4.10 and 5.1).
It's nice to be welcomed by higher performance when you switch OSes. :-)
my questions:
1) what is Buf and Cache in top exactly? why b
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
my questions:
Start here :
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/
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