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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!pandora.devetir.qld.gov.au!syssgm From: syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au (Stephen McKay) Subject: Re: Qx2: 386sx & gpl Nntp-Posting-Host: orion.devetir.qld.gov.au References: <3rcoru$t57@hobbes.cc.uga.edu> <3rcvqm$hj2@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: news@devetir.qld.gov.au (Network News) Organization: DEVETIR, QLD, AUSTRALIA Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 08:46:58 GMT Message-ID: <syssgm.803119618@pandora> Lines: 38 jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: >In article <3rcoru$t57@hobbes.cc.uga.edu>, >james minyard <minyard@pollux.cs.uga.edu> wrote: > >>1) why is running freebsd in a 386sx "not recommended" (per some docs at >>freebsd.org)? > >No particular reason other than it's slow! :-) Slow! Bah! In response, I'll just recycle this stuff that I sent to the freebsd-current mailing list in May: Subject: Enthusiasm boost: make world works on 386SX16 4Mb Date: Wed, 17 May 95 19:32:34 EST Feeling down because your Pentium 90 complains about syntax errors in the latest sysinstall? Worried about your slow Internet connection? Fooey! Gain a special warmth from the knowledge that FreeBSD-current (as of 1995-05-09 20:57) compiles from scratch in a mere 6 days non-stop on a 386SX16 with 4Mb ram, IDE disk, vnconfig'd swap space and NFS mounted /usr/src and /usr/obj. We're talking 140 hours, give or take a few. Be happy to know that every type of swap-in/swap-out/page-in/page-out/vm-fault code sequence was exercised thousands of times in a memory starved environment. Be not indifferent to the fact that it still ran well enough while compiling to allow a few vmstats and pstats and the occasional 'man vnconfig'. Key echo was fine, most of the time. :-) 2.0.5 is looking really solid to me! No hangs, glitches or weird things, and all my swap space stayed usable. Prepare for pats on the back all round! Stephen. PS. Those of you with a trivia fixation can enjoy the following: 'make world' caused 60 million wdc0 interrupts and 6 million ed0 interrupts.