From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 29 05:26:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1323316A4CE for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 05:26:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web53607.mail.yahoo.com (web53607.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.37.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4C27743D2D for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 05:26:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scott@sremick.net) Received: (qmail 27088 invoked by uid 60001); 29 Dec 2004 05:26:52 -0000 Message-ID: <20041229052652.27086.qmail@web53607.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [69.171.193.20] by web53607.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 21:26:52 PST X-RocketYMMF: siremick Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 21:26:52 -0800 (PST) From: "Scott I. Remick" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Man pages take forever on slow machine? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: scott@sremick.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 05:26:54 -0000 Ok so I got over my hurdle getting FreeBSD 5.3 installed on this old Presario (it ended up being RAM... needed more than 16MB to get through install, borrowed some and then could then back off to default 16MB after 5.3 was on). I thought I was on a roll until I "accidentally" tried to bring up a man page. It has been on "Formatting page, please wait..." ever since. I didn't pay attention to when, but I think it was at least an hour ago. Yes, an HOUR. And I still don't have my man page. Yes this isn't the fastest machine (I think it's a Pentium 133MHz, 16MB RAM) but really... I ran FreeBSD 2.2.2 as a webserver on a 486 66MHz "back in the day". I'd expect this to be slow, but... 1+ hours for a man page? It's worse than that, though. I can't CTRL-C out. I get lots of ^C^C^C^C but it won't stop. I can use ALT-F2 and ALT-F3 to load up additional VTTYs but they are unresponsive... I type and nothing appears. Maybe if I come back a LONG while later I see some of my keystrokes. I was trying to do a good deed by recycling some old hardware my dad had and give him a FreeBSD server to learn with. But this is bizarre. Asking for a man page has brought this system to its knees. C'mon... it ran Windows 95. I think we can do better than this....? It's not even going to be GUI. Any advice? Thanks in-advance...