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From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
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Subject: Re: Man pages take forever on slow machine?
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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