Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 13:08:53 +1030 From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> To: scott@sremick.net, Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz@wanadoo.es>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Man pages take forever on slow machine? Message-ID: <200412301308.53580.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <20041229141544.48982.qmail@web53603.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20041229141544.48982.qmail@web53603.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 12:45 am, Scott I. Remick wrote: > --- Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz@wanadoo.es> wrote: > > My pentium 100 MHz with 16 MB RAM runs smoothly with FreeBSD 4.10 , it > > even runs fvwm under X. I am not able to run 5.3 install, as I only have > > 16MB, I was suspecting that I need more memory for the install proccess. > > The reason I wanted 5.3 was so that, if my dad gets hooked and wants to > progress, he doesn't have to unlearn the 4.x way of things after just > learning it. Unfortunately this old system is the only spare one we had > lying around. > > Now, I can understand needing more than 16MB to install. I can understand > that there'd be a lot of swapping. I can understand it's going to be a lot > slower than what I'm used to. But what I don't understand is how I could > wake up this morning and it's STILL working on that man page. That seems to > suggest not just proportional slowness, but that there's something horribly > wrong. > What is your total memory space? Do you have enough swap space? All hell can break loose if physical memory + swap space is too small. Malcolm
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