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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.0 on 386DX20 w/12MB Slow...  Normal?
Date: 2 Jun 1996 21:07:35 GMT
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takakami@ix.netcom.com (Takafumi Kamiya) wrote:

> 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!

Btw., catman(1) is your friend.  Pick a weekend where the machine
would otherwise sit idle, and run (as root):

	su man -c 'catman /usr/share/man /usr/local/man /usr/X11R6/man'

I think due to some installation problem, there were no cat directories
in 2.1R, so you have to (assuming the default C-shell for root)

	mkdir /usr/share/man/cat{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8}
	chmod 755 /usr/share/man/cat*
	chown man:bin /usr/share/man/cat*

first.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)