From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 30 17:27:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (corinth.bossig.com [208.26.239.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D46815365 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 17:27:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn2214.bossig.com [208.26.242.214]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 3.4.5) with ESMTP id ; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 17:34:43 -0800 Message-ID: <386C0676.F39EC477@3-cities.com> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 17:27:18 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: William Freeman Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: some performance issues References: <386C023E.680FC31@inna.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG William Freeman wrote: > > Hello all. I've finaly gotten out of that evil linux cult and come back > to the land of FreeBSD, how ever in 3.3R i have noticed that programmes > such as Netscape, Licq, gnomecc, gIDE, e-conf, et cetera do not load as > fast as they should, or in fact, occasionaly not in a reasonable amount > of time. on a 400Mhz machine with 256MB of RAM i shouldn't have time to > fetch a cup of coffie while waiting for one of these relitivly small > applications to load when i don't have time to blink when loading Emacs > or Glade. I've tried everything i can think of (including several > re-installations, compiling the software by hand, et cetera) but i still > cant figure it out. If any one has any suggestions it would be greatly > appreciated. Well, you didn't tell us what kind of 400Mhz machine you have. A Celeron, straight out of the box, doesn't run a fast as a P-II or P-III. The memory runs at 66Mhz instead of 100Mhz. A IDE HD that is capable of UDMA33 will produce much different results than one that is only capable of 16MB/s. The flags on your IDE controller can change through put by a factor of 4x. Netscape loads as fast on my FreeBSD system as it does on Win 2000. Some times, it is even faster. You wouldn't have time to get to the stairs in my place before it was loaded much less get a cup of coffee. Kent > > William Freeman > !spam-dfree@inna.net > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message