From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 29 05:51:41 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 794D916A4CE for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 05:51:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (CPE0050040655c8-CM00111ae02aac.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.199.47.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A2D343D55 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 05:51:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 65D93511AE; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 21:51:41 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 21:51:41 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: "Scott I. Remick" Message-ID: <20041229055141.GD4488@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20041229052652.27086.qmail@web53607.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="pQhZXvAqiZgbeUkD" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041229052652.27086.qmail@web53607.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i 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 05:51:41 -0000 --pQhZXvAqiZgbeUkD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 09:26:52PM -0800, 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 br= ing > up a man page. It has been on "Formatting page, please wait..." ever sinc= e. >=20 > 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. >=20 > Yes this isn't the fastest machine (I think it's a Pentium 133MHz, 16MB R= AM) > 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?=20 It might be swapping itself to death because you're overloading the system. If you install the 'catpages' distribution from sysinstall (preformatted manpages) then you'll probably get past this problem, but you'll quickly find that 16MB RAM is not enough to do many useful things with on 5.x. You'd probably be better off with an older release (4.x, or even 2.x if you don't mind unfixed security vulnerabilities), because they were designed to run on systems with less memory. Kris --pQhZXvAqiZgbeUkD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB0kXtWry0BWjoQKURAhntAJ41KPgAtj8Lbgv3RI6OWDskhMU08QCfQN4j WhzUbC+7AJXSbamzQq9mhCA= =t21E -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pQhZXvAqiZgbeUkD--