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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!newsgate.duke.edu!godot.cc.duq.edu!newsfeed.pitt.edu!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!news.voicenet.com!news2.noc.netcom.net!noc.netcom.net!ixnews1.ix.netcom.com!ix.netcom.com!news From: takakami@ix.netcom.com(Takafumi Kamiya ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.0 on 386DX20 w/12MB Slow... Normal? Date: 30 May 1996 13:00:10 GMT Organization: Netcom Lines: 37 Message-ID: <4ok64q$e7@dfw-ixnews2.ix.netcom.com> References: <4oiog4$9od@sjx-ixn3.ix.netcom.com> <jlemonDs79DD.J04@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: orl-fl4-13.ix.netcom.com X-NETCOM-Date: Thu May 30 8:00:10 AM CDT 1996 >Well, I just installed 2.1R on a 386SX/20 with 4MB, 85MB IDE disk. >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 Thanks for your input! I'd love to try snap shot version, but I am an unix novice. I don't know enought to get around not-fully-debugged versions, and I don't want to fill this usenet group with "HHHEEEELLLLPPP" posts of my own. My install of 2.1.0 took over 3 hours using floppy on my machine and I have plenty of RAM. (8mb on MB and 4mb more on bus) Just to tell you how slow it is, if I do man **anything** for the first time, it takes 2 ~ 3 minutes to uncompress the man page I asked for. It will be faster after the 2nd time, of course. I am, eventually, planning to make this my gateway to the internet. I have two IBM PC/RTs (IBM's first RISC based unix machine) and I'd like to connect this to the net. However, this machine is too premetive to understand the current version of slip and chat script. It doesn't even have ppp. My idea was to connect by eithernet my RTs and FreeBSD, FreeBSD calls the internet via ppp over a dialup link, RTs talk to FreeBSD box via 10base2. Anyhow, please let me know how you make out on your configuration. ps. I also have a 386sx-33 motherboard. Maybe I should try this one :)