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From: cgull@smoke.marlboro.vt.us (john hood)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.0 on 386DX20 w/12MB Slow...  Normal?
Date: 1 Jun 1996 03:25:31 GMT
Organization: interstellar
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References: <4oiog4$9od@sjx-ixn3.ix.netcom.com> <jlemonDs79DD.J04@netcom.com> <4ok64q$e7@dfw-ixnews2.ix.netcom.com> <4omieg$2fm@tgate.pdv.de>
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>In article <4ok64q$e7@dfw-ixnews2.ix.netcom.com>, takakami@ix.netcom.cos 
>says...
>>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)

There's your problem, likely.  The 16-bit memory card probably makes
your system run 3 times slower when it's accessing code in there.  I
tried this, back when I had a 4MB 386SX16, a 3MB 16-bit memory card,
and, oh, Xenix or 386BSD 0.2 or some other Unix of that vintage. :) It
was much, much slower to use the 16-bit memory than it was to page to
disk (I was getting significant swapping, which was why I tried this).
I'd use that 16-bit memory only if I absolutely had to, for a system
that paniced or couldn't install or was swapping > 95% of the time,
for example.  With 8MB of motherboard memory, you don't qualify. :)

  --jh