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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!news.voicenet.com!news2.noc.netcom.net!noc.netcom.net!netcom.net.uk!netcom.com!jlemon From: jlemon@netcom.com (Jonathan Lemon) Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.0 on 386DX20 w/12MB Slow... Normal? Message-ID: <jlemonDs79DD.J04@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) References: <4oiog4$9od@sjx-ixn3.ix.netcom.com> Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 03:51:13 GMT Lines: 27 Sender: jlemon@netcom22.netcom.com 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