That's yes. Process scheduling and swap handling are *the* areas that makes
difference.
To add salt to the injury, the HP machine is 120MHz. OK it has SCSI disk
and mine has IBM IDE. But that should be fair enough. Mine is PIII 450.
I can fork couple of telnets in less than couple of seconds to the HP
machine(with the help of NFS telnet client which automatically loggs you in),
when it's walking with our product compilation(6 hours estimated)+ 3 Oracle
databases. It has much more swap, 512 MB.
Under test of KDE compilation,linux machine never touched swap. But it
took me more than 5-7 seconds to get output of free.
Admittedly HP handles swap much better. Besides aggressive caching done by
linux is harmful in such cases. I think freeBSD is better resopinsive in such
cases, according to a review recently posted in eweek.
Bye
Shridhar
On 13-Feb-2001 sreangsu acharyya wrote:
>
> with same amount of RAM ? I guess the answers' is in how they do the
> process scheduling and swaping. No idea about these though.
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