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From: jlemon@netcom.com (Jonathan Lemon)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.0 on 386DX20 w/12MB Slow... Normal?
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Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 03:51:13 GMT
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In article <4oiog4$9od@sjx-ixn3.ix.netcom.com>,
Takafumi Kamiya <takakami@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>I just installed FreeBSD 2.1.0 on 386DX20 machine with 8MB on motherboard and
>4MB on 16bit bus. Disk is 120MB IDE (access speed should be around 15ms)
>
>To start with, it took me over 4 hours to install, and after install
>everything seems awfully slow.
Well, I just installed 2.1R on a 386SX/20 with 4MB, 85MB IDE disk. (hey,
don't laugh - I thought it would make a good router).
Two notes:
- FreeBSD definitely does not work in 2MB; it can't uncompress the kernel.
- The 2.2-960328-SNAP (I had a boot floppy laying around) is much MUCH
faster at installing; 2.1R takes about 5-10 minutes to go through the
'newfs/cpio/config ethernet' stage before getting to the actual install,
while the SNAP took about 1-2 minutes.
Install of the minimal distribution took about 45 minutes, via ftp.
I haven't played with it yet, so I don't know how slow it will be under load.
If this wasn't going to be a production machine, it seems like it might be
better to run a 2.2-SNAP, as they seem to be much faster than 2.1
--
Jonathan