Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 22:27:56 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Irvin Piraman" <ippiraman@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Man pages take forever on slow machine? Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNGENJEPAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <ee2dc79c04122822254a71b1af@mail.gmail.com>
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So did the O.P. but he's dissatisfied with the speed. Ted > -----Original Message----- > From: Irvin Piraman [mailto:ippiraman@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 10:26 PM > To: Ted Mittelstaedt > Cc: scott@sremick.net; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Man pages take forever on slow machine? > > > I got 5.2.1 running on P133+16MB RAM+2GB HDD > > Irvin > > > On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 22:22:33 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt > <tedm@toybox.placo.com> wrote: > > FreeBSD 4.10 is OK on a 16MB Pentium 133Mhz system, espically if > > you recompile the kernel to make it smaller. But I wouldn't try > > 5.3. > > > > Better on these older and smaller systems is FreeBSD 3.5.1 you > > can get it here: > > > > > ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/IS > O-IMAGES/3 > > .5.1/ > > > > 3.5.1 also still supports the old CMD 640 ide controller if you > > have the misfortune to have one of those. > > > > Of course, if your going to put a 3.5.1 system on the Internet, it > > is a requirement you have a full source tree because your going > > to have to patch the hell out of it, and recompile the kernel and > > a bunch of daemons. > > > > Ted > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of > Scott I. Remick > > > Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 9:27 PM > > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > > Subject: Man pages take forever on slow machine? > > > > > > > > > Ok so I got over my hurdle getting FreeBSD 5.3 installed on this old > > > Presario (it ended up being RAM... needed more than 16MB to > get through > > > install, borrowed some and then could then back off to > default 16MB after > > > 5.3 was on). I thought I was on a roll until I "accidentally" > > > tried to bring > > > up a man page. It has been on "Formatting page, please wait..." > > > ever since. > > > > > > I didn't pay attention to when, but I think it was at least > an hour ago. > > > Yes, an HOUR. And I still don't have my man page. > > > > > > Yes this isn't the fastest machine (I think it's a Pentium > > > 133MHz, 16MB RAM) > > > but really... I ran FreeBSD 2.2.2 as a webserver on a 486 66MHz > > > "back in the > > > day". I'd expect this to be slow, but... 1+ hours for a man page? > > > > > > It's worse than that, though. I can't CTRL-C out. I get lots of > > > ^C^C^C^C but > > > it won't stop. I can use ALT-F2 and ALT-F3 to load up > additional VTTYs but > > > they are unresponsive... I type and nothing appears. Maybe if I > > > come back a > > > LONG while later I see some of my keystrokes. > > > > > > I was trying to do a good deed by recycling some old hardware my > > > dad had and > > > give him a FreeBSD server to learn with. But this is bizarre. > Asking for a > > > man page has brought this system to its knees. C'mon... it ran > > > Windows 95. I > > > think we can do better than this....? It's not even going to be GUI. > > > > > > Any advice? Thanks in-advance... > > > _______________________________________________ > > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > >
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