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From: takakami@worldnet.att.net (Takafumi Kamiya)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.0 on 386DX20 w/12MB Slow...  Normal?
Date: 1 Jun 1996 14:47:12 GMT
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>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. :)
>

Yes, I removed my memory card and the whole thing is about twice as fast.  
Thanks!