On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 11:25:45AM -0400, David Maxwell wrote:

> Now, it may be true that NetBSD doesn't use all of the optimizations
> that are available on every platform - in that case, feel free to
> contribute suggestions of where improvements can be made.

Ok ;)

> > I've noticed that when I log out, it takes about one second to show the
> > NetBSD greeting like linux. FreeBSD is just instantaneous. I solved this
> > in debian replacing agetty with mingetty which worked faster, but, what
> > makes NetBSD a bit slower that the other?
> > 
> > The same happens after entering the first login name... it takes about
> > a second (or less) to show the Password: string, but then it works fast.
> 
> It sounds like getty may have been swapped out, in order to free up RAM
> for another task. Check how much RAM you have, (16?) and look at the
> 'Capacity' column in the output of 'pstat -s' to see how much swap is
> being used.

I doubt it... I'm running NetBSD on a PII 233 with 128 mb ram. I only would
like to know why freebsd is faster that netbsd or linux here.

Thanks I only would
like to know why freebsd is faster that netbsd or linux here.

Thanks.

> 								David