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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.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!bofh.dot!news.seinf.abb.se!erinews.ericsson.se!eua.ericsson.se!news.algonet.se!news From: johang@algonet.se (Johan Granlund) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.0 on 386DX20 w/12MB Slow... Normal? Date: Sat, 01 Jun 1996 23:01:24 GMT Organization: AlgoNet Public Access Node, Stockholm Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4oqeqr$se9@epimetheus.algonet.se> References: <4oiog4$9od@sjx-ixn3.ix.netcom.com> <31AF465F.2781E494@we.lc.ehu.es> <4oo55j$jkp@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: aristotle.algonet.se NNTP-Posting-User: bbf44383e70a0128793c87732e2a5b740 X-Newsreader: Free Agent 1.0.82 On 1 Jun 1996 01:08:03 GMT, takakami@ix.netcom.com (Takafumi Kamiya) wrote: > >> I think the memory with 16 bit access is affecting performance. > > >You are absolutely right!!!! I removed my 4mb card from bus (thus making my >machine 8MB on motherboard only), and it speed up by as much as 100%. If I do >man **anything** for the first time, it used to take up to 3 minutes for the >file to get uncompressed and formatted. Now, it shows up in one minute! (Not >fast, but with 386DX20, I think it is OK. I experienced this with Windows 3.1, >but I wasn't sure if this would be the case with unix (since Windows have >terrible memory management). Thank you for the tip!!! Think about either upgrade to 2.1-stable or the 2.2-SNAP. When i upgraded to -stable i went from a slow to a fast machine (on the same machine :-] ). The problem is that it would probably take your machine 2 days to compile everything. >