Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 11:59:21 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Marc Schneiders <marc@schneiders.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is this box so slow? Message-ID: <20020830165921.GB96186@grumpy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20020830144957.C27785-100000@voo.doo.net> References: <20020830144957.C27785-100000@voo.doo.net>
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On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 02:55:15PM +0200, Marc Schneiders wrote: > I am running FreeBSD 4 stable on a Pentium II 300 with sufficient RAM, > I think. Nevertheless certain things are very, very slow. A buildworld > takes days. Also opening a large (18 MB file) with vi doesn't work out > for ages. (I am now waiting 5 minutes and still nothing to edit...) I have (4) nearly identical Dell Optiplex PII-300's with FreeBSD. IIRC about 2 hours to "make buildworld" on 3 of the 4. 64MB RAM. No X11. After much investigation the 4th, which builds about half as fast, had a 5400 RPM 6G HD while the others have 7200 RPM drives at 4G. I did not expect the drive to make that much difference. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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