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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!theos.com!riscan.riscan.com!van.istar!van-bc!unixg.ubc.ca!aurora.cs.athabascau.ca!sgigate.sgi.com!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news-in.tiac.net!news.tiac.net!not-for-mail From: cgull@smoke.marlboro.vt.us (john hood) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.0 on 386DX20 w/12MB Slow... Normal? Date: 1 Jun 1996 03:25:31 GMT Organization: interstellar Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4ood7b$dld@news.tiac.net> References: <4oiog4$9od@sjx-ixn3.ix.netcom.com> <jlemonDs79DD.J04@netcom.com> <4ok64q$e7@dfw-ixnews2.ix.netcom.com> <4omieg$2fm@tgate.pdv.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: smoke.marlboro.vt.us >In article <4ok64q$e7@dfw-ixnews2.ix.netcom.com>, takakami@ix.netcom.cos >says... >>I'd love to try snap shot version, but I am an unix novice. I don't >>know enought to get around not-fully-debugged versions, and I don't >>want to fill this usenet group with "HHHEEEELLLLPPP" posts of my own. [...] >>My install of 2.1.0 took over 3 hours using floppy on my machine and I >>have plenty of RAM. (8mb on MB and 4mb more on bus) There's your problem, likely. The 16-bit memory card probably makes your system run 3 times slower when it's accessing code in there. I tried this, back when I had a 4MB 386SX16, a 3MB 16-bit memory card, and, oh, Xenix or 386BSD 0.2 or some other Unix of that vintage. :) It was much, much slower to use the 16-bit memory than it was to page to disk (I was getting significant swapping, which was why I tried this). I'd use that 16-bit memory only if I absolutely had to, for a system that paniced or couldn't install or was swapping > 95% of the time, for example. With 8MB of motherboard memory, you don't qualify. :) --jh