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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!netcom.net.uk!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: 1 Jun 1996 01:08:03 GMT Organization: Netcom Lines: 12 Message-ID: <4oo55j$jkp@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> References: <4oiog4$9od@sjx-ixn3.ix.netcom.com> <31AF465F.2781E494@we.lc.ehu.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: orl-fl3-24.ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-NETCOM-Date: Fri May 31 8:08:03 PM CDT 1996 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.7 > I think the memory with 16 bit access is affecting performance. You are absolutely right!!!! I removed my 4mb card from bus (thus making my machine 8MB on motherboard only), and it speed up by as much as 100%. If I do man **anything** for the first time, it used to take up to 3 minutes for the file to get uncompressed and formatted. Now, it shows up in one minute! (Not fast, but with 386DX20, I think it is OK. I experienced this with Windows 3.1, but I wasn't sure if this would be the case with unix (since Windows have terrible memory management). Thank you for the tip!!!