From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 4 7:16:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp11.bellglobal.com (smtp11.bellglobal.com [204.101.251.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29E9B14C36 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 07:16:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from a.genkin@utoronto.ca) Received: from main.wgaf.net (HSE-TOR-ppp22851.sympatico.ca [209.226.71.141]) by smtp11.bellglobal.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA26986; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:19:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from antipode by main.wgaf.net with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 110nbJ-0002ic-00; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:50:37 -0400 To: Robert Sowders Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, a.genkin@utoronto.ca Subject: Re: solved (was: FreeBSD is painfully slow on my 486) References: From: Arcady Genkin Date: 04 Jul 1999 10:50:37 -0400 In-Reply-To: Robert Sowders's message of "Sun, 04 Jul 1999 01:32:28 -0700" Message-ID: <87yagwpiyq.fsf@main.wgaf.net> Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.07009 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.90) XEmacs/21.1 (20 Minutes to Nikko) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Robert Sowders writes: > Sorry, I could have saved you some time, had I read my email. > > There is a bios setting for enabling the internal cache, yours was > apparently off. > Curios, the default is on, wonder how it switched off? Well I remember I was fooling around with BIOS settings at some point, when I installed 2 ethernet cards and was trying to determine the speed ISA bus was running at... > >>> Arcady Genkin 7/3/99 12:16:36 AM >>> > Thank you again to everyone who responded to my problem. It eventually > solved when I loaded BIOS defaults. I don't know for sure what the > problem was, but I think that it had something to do with cache, > because now it says "Cache 256Kb" at boot-up, and it didn't previously. -- Arcady Genkin "... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message