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. --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net PGP Public Key Fingerprint: 6E7B 9993 B503 6D45 E33A 2019 26E5 C1DB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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