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From: johang@algonet.se (Johan Granlund)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.0 on 386DX20 w/12MB Slow...  Normal?
Date: Sat, 01 Jun 1996 23:01:24 GMT
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On 1 Jun 1996 01:08:03 GMT, takakami@ix.netcom.com (Takafumi Kamiya)
wrote:

>
>>        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!!!

Think about either upgrade to 2.1-stable or the 2.2-SNAP. When i
upgraded to -stable i went from a slow to a fast machine (on the same
machine :-] ).
The problem is that it would probably take your machine 2 days to
compile everything.
>