Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 10:48:28 +0200 From: Ladavac Marino <mladavac@metropolitan.at> To: 'Matthias Meyser' <Matthias.Meyser@harz.de>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FreeBSD is painfully slow on my 486 Message-ID: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C11002761796CD@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Matthias Meyser [SMTP:Matthias.Meyser@harz.de] > Sent: Friday, July 02, 1999 6:25 PM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: FreeBSD is painfully slow on my 486 > > Hi all out there > > > Only to be sure. In older 486er times all motherboards had a > mysterious > switch called "THE TURBO SWITCH" if this isnt triggered the system > runs > only at 8MHZ speed or so. [ML] We've covered that already. FYI, if the turbo is not connected, it defaults to on. OTOH, '486 cannot change the clock frequency on the fly (it has lotsa DRAM storage in it), what the turbo switch did was to disable L2 cache. And that is exactly what the original poster did in his BIOS--he had L2 cache always disabled. > Perhaps you accidently turned it of without mention it. Or it isnt > properly connected ..... > > CU > matthias > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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