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Date:      Wed, 16 Jan 2002 12:25:54 -0500
From:      "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net>
To:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "soralx@cydem.zp.ua" <soralx@cydem.zp.ua>
Subject:   Re: Re[2]: slow console
Message-ID:  <20020116172402.5FF9F48425@wastegate.net>

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On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 21:33:11 -0700, soralx@cydem.zp.ua wrote:

>>> If somebody has something like Pentium-166 or slower, you can see
>>> that console in FreeBSD works really slowly. For example, launch
>>> MidnightCommander(mc), press and hold the 'Tab' key. You'll see that
>>> when it changes between panels, the command line doesn't change
>>> appropriately (when it is in different directories). Then try the
>>> same in Linux - it works excellent. Or, try `ls -alF /dev` in the
>>> both systems - in Linux it works much faster (considering that it
>>> shows 'em in color!). Why? What can I do to expedite the console?
>>> P.S.: sorry for my English :)
>
>DR> i dont know- i ran freebsd 4.0 on a 486dx4-133 with 28 megs of ram, and
>DR> everything ran perfectly from the console,
>I  just  wanted to say that it works much slower than it should be (on
>Linux  or windoze, for example). The console could be !much faster. It
>must  work perfectly, without any delays, because it is VGA_80x25 text
>mode!
>Did you try to install MC and hold <Tab> ?

unfortantely not- i had no need for it since it was just a DoD ppp
server.  I did have pine- didn't have any lag with it.
try updating to 4.5-RC - they have fixed a lot of bug with that.

>DR> aside from taking a while from compiling a kernel
>Yep.
>But in Linux on P[MMX]-200 machine it takes about 10 hours to
>compile the kernel :)

kernel on that machine was around 2.5-3 hours.




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