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#! rnews 2365 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!bofh.dot!in-news.erinet.com!imci5!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!new-news.sprintlink.net!sollube.sarenet.es!news From: Borja Marcos <borjam@we.lc.ehu.es> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.0 on 386DX20 w/12MB Slow... Normal? Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 21:19:59 +0200 Organization: SAREnet, S.A. Lines: 41 Message-ID: <31AF465F.2781E494@we.lc.ehu.es> References: <4oiog4$9od@sjx-ixn3.ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: infovia-b-16.sarenet.es Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) Takafumi Kamiya 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. > > Is my machine too slow for this OS? (I have seen sco running on similar > machine much faster....) > > I just wanted to play with FreeBSD. I don't intend to use X or any other power > hungry apps, but if my machine is struggling with just running OS, I must think > of upgrading the motherboard before doing anything. I'm using FreeBSD 2.1R at two machines. One of them is a 486DX2/66 and the other is a 386DX25. Of course the 486 machine is faster, but the 386DX is at a friend's design studio supporting a WWW server (only used for testing pages and such things) and it's going to be used soon as a proxy to connect a pair of Macintoshes to Internet. It also executes my SED and AWK scripts to modify lots of HTML pages quite well. It's a machine with 64 K cache, and 8 MB RAM. The disk is an IDE drive. I used SCO Unix some time ago in the 386 and FreeBSD's performance is better. Does your motherboard have a cache? I think the memory with 16 bit access is affecting performance. Borja. -- *********************************************************************** Borja Marcos * Internet: borjam@we.lc.ehu.es Alangoeta, 11 1 izq * borjam@well.com 48990 - Algorta (Vizcaya) * CompuServe: 100015,3502 SPAIN * ***********************************************************************