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Date:      Mon, 07 Apr 1997 18:47:22 -0400
From:      dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 2.2.1R NFS and FTP load problem - More Info
Message-ID:  <3.0.32.19970407184719.00af9490@etinc.com>

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At 08:51 PM 4/7/97 +0200, you wrote:
>On Sat, Apr 05, 1997 at 01:32:09PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
>> > >That's odd.. I had no problems installing 2.2R or 2.2.1R over NFS
with an
>> > >old ISA-only 486 with 8MB of RAM. 
>> > 
>> > Since there seems to be widespread doubt about this conclusion,
>> > if someone can get me a boot disk with some diagnostics for
>> > memory usage I'd be more than happy to try to track this down (as
>> > its no doubt going to bite me in the future)....theres a limited amount
>> > of info that I can gather with the install disk unfortunatly.....

Well, the machine with 8 meg of RAM seems to work OK when I do a 
full developer load (sources), but fails on the "kernel developer"
selection. Could there be a bug there? Its a total pig when loading
the ports.....the throughput drops to like 5Kb and the disk sounds like
a choo-choo.....

Dennis



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