Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 17:18:15 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: Jeff Dickson <jeff.dickson@jpl.nasa.gov>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2R real slow with 8 meg Message-ID: <199704010118.RAA13106@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 31 Mar 1997 14:10:03 EST." <3.0.32.19970331141000.00ae5cc0@etinc.com>
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>At 09:51 AM 3/31/97 -0800, you wrote: >>> 2.2 is noticably slower with only 8 meg of ram....is this to be >expected, or >>> is there some configuration option that needs to be tweeked? I'm pretty >>> much using the GENERIC settings. >>> >> >>Hi Dennis. You need more memory! I bet the machine is swapping like >>crazy. Run top and see what the percentage of swap space used is. You >>should also remake your kernel so it doesn't include a whole bunch of >>stuff that isn't needed. That'll save alot of memory in itself and has- >>ten the boot procedure. I have 24 MB on my system (2.1) and that's >>barely enough! >> >I'll bet I do also...but the question is WHY? A machine with basic >networking, a text console and virtually no services running shouldnt >pig out with 8 meg. Or is FreeBSD now suffering from Windowsitis? You probably want a custom kernel. GENERIC has all sorts of crap in it that will cause considerable bloat; that's the price of adding new device driver support. Also, NFS has about doubled in size (to REALLY HUGE), so if you don't need NFS, take it out. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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