From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 21 10: 8:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xfw.transarc.ibm.com (xfw.transarc.ibm.com [192.54.226.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37EBD37B40A for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 10:08:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pat@transarc.ibm.com) Received: from mailhost2.transarc.ibm.com (mailhost2.transarc.ibm.com [9.38.192.125]) by xfw.transarc.ibm.com (AIX4.3/UCB 8.7/8.7) with ESMTP id NAA79256 for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 13:01:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smithfield.transarc.ibm.com (smithfield.transarc.ibm.com [9.38.192.92]) by mailhost2.transarc.ibm.com (8.8.0/8.8.0) with SMTP id NAA19308 for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 13:08:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 13:08:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Pat Barron To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Performance problems on Thinkpad 380XD Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I finally got FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE installed on my Thinkpad 380XD, but I'm having some problems. The 380XD is a 233MHz Pentium II, and it has 64 meg of RAM. But it seems very sluggish. Every time I type a command to the shell, it appears to take a *very* long time (sometimes on the order of 3 or 4 seconds) before anything actually happens. During this time, I can hear the disk seeking around. The sequence goes something like: % cat /etc/motd [just for instance] [audible disk chugging] [file finally starts to print out about 3 or 4 seconds later] Once a program has actually started, it seems to proceed without delays, *unless* it later has to do any disk I/O (in which case it stalls when it hits the disk). It almost seems like the system is retrying bad disk reads, but no retries are being logged. My dinky little Dell Latitude XPi (133 MHz Pentium, 24 meg RAM) seems quite speedy in comparison - it has no such delays, and its response 'feels' much faster. This is very puzzling - I'd welcome any clues as to where to start looking for this problem .... --Pat. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message