Subject: Re: Linux/NetBSD speed comparison.
To: Julian Assange <proff@suburbia.net>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-alpha
Date: 07/18/2000 19:44:24
On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Julian Assange wrote:

> Try starting netscape twice though. linux blows netbsd away here. This
> is probably all to do with having a dynamicly sized buffer cache.

	It might be not entirely unrelated to it being linux binary using
	all the appropriate linux shared libraries. I had a friend with
	a Pentium 200MMX with 64MB of memory running 1.4, and the BSDI
	4.51 netscape binary would startup the second time with no
	appreciable latency at all...

                David/absolute
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