Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Alexander Sanda) | Subject | Re: real kernel bloat | Date | 25 Jun 1996 20:53:00 GMT |
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In article <199606250635.XAA27268@tzadkiel.efn.org> Steve VanDevender <stevev@efn.org> wrote:
>As far as I can tell Digital UNIX (formerly Digital OSF/1) is a fat >bloated pig. At boot the kernel allocates over 8 megabytes of memory to >itself on a 32 meg machine. Once I load up X and my assortment of >desktop doodads the machine runs acceptably, as long as only one thing >is running. If, however, I try to compile something and then do >something else the machine swaps like mad, and simple window system >operations like raising or moving windows have 5-10 second delays >between pressing the buttons and seeing something happen. [compared to 486 / 32 megs, linux] Hm, you should not compare those two systems. It is not fair. 32 MB is a fine amount of memory for a intel-based linux machine, but it is extremely low memory for a RISC based system, running a microkernel based OS.
Downgrade your linux box to - let's say - 8 megs of memory. Then boot it up, fire up X and start a kernel build. I'am sure, it will start to swap a lot, and the interactive performance will go down.
On the other side, you can upgrade your Alpha to 96 or 128 MB, and I'am sure you will get a lot more happy with it.
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