From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 29 05:38:07 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 20A2E16A4CE for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 05:38:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out011.verizon.net (out011pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F12E43D49 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 05:38:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from reso3w83@verizon.net) Received: from ringworm.mechee.com ([4.26.84.7]) by out011.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20041229053805.XLLD4717.out011.verizon.net@ringworm.mechee.com>; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 23:38:05 -0600 Received: by ringworm.mechee.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 27D822CE743; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 21:35:10 -0800 (PST) From: "Michael C. Shultz" To: scott@sremick.net Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 21:35:09 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <20041229052652.27086.qmail@web53607.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20041229052652.27086.qmail@web53607.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200412282135.10346.reso3w83@verizon.net> X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out011.verizon.net from [4.26.84.7] at Tue, 28 Dec 2004 23:38:05 -0600 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Man pages take forever on slow machine? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 05:38:07 -0000 On Tuesday 28 December 2004 09:26 pm, Scott I. Remick wrote: > 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) Until last summer I was running KDE on a pentium 166 with 98meg memory and it worked pretty well. You probably just need to scrounge up a little more memory. -Mike > 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... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"