Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 00:03:21 -0500 (EST) From: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> To: David Greenman <dg@root.com> Cc: dennis <dennis@etinc.com>, Jeff Dickson <jeff.dickson@jpl.nasa.gov>, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 2.2R real slow with 8 meg Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970401000049.3817A-100000@vinyl.quickweb.com> In-Reply-To: <199704010118.RAA13106@root.com>
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On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, David Greenman wrote: > >At 09:51 AM 3/31/97 -0800, you wrote: > >>> 2.2 is noticably slower with only 8 meg of ram....is this to be > >expected, or > >>> is there some configuration option that needs to be tweeked? I'm pretty > >>> much using the GENERIC settings. [SNIP] > > You probably want a custom kernel. GENERIC has all sorts of crap in it > that will cause considerable bloat; that's the price of adding new device > driver support. Also, NFS has about doubled in size (to REALLY HUGE), so > if you don't need NFS, take it out. This worked for me (taking NFS out). Now, a *crappy* 486 laptop I'm using with FreeBSD works much faster under 2.2R than it did last week under 2.1R. At least it feels like it :-) -Mark > -DG > > David Greenman > Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com RingZero Comp. http://vinyl.quickweb.com/mark finger mark@quickweb.com for my PGP key and GCS code ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Typically, I don't use JAVA -- I think that strong typing is for weak minds (and lazy compiler/interpreter writers)." -- Terry Lambert
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