From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 2 6:39: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from plab.ku.dk (plab.ku.dk [130.225.105.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 235F414DC3 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 06:38:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tobez@plab.ku.dk) Received: from lion.plab.ku.dk (lion.plab.ku.dk [130.225.105.49]) by plab.ku.dk (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA18288 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 15:38:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from tobez@localhost) by lion.plab.ku.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA17068 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 15:36:41 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from tobez) Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 15:36:41 +0200 From: Anton Berezin To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD is painfully slow on my 486 Message-ID: <19990702153641.E2650@lion.plab.ku.dk> References: <87btdvywsn.fsf@main.wgaf.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <87btdvywsn.fsf@main.wgaf.net>; from Arcady Genkin on Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 10:02:32AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 10:02:32AM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: > It seems to me that the things are not only affected by slower I/O. > For example scrolling in /sdand/sysinstall I can feel perceptible > delays between me pressing "down" key and the cursor actually moving > down. Same for other programs. I'm aware that I/O is slower with > synchroniously mounted devices, but I don't think it should cause > system slowing down *that* much. > last pid: 351; load averages: 0.14, 0.13, 0.08 up 0+00:09:15 11:56:17 > 17 processes: 1 running, 16 sleeping > > Mem: 3216K Active, 4828K Inact, 2784K Wired, 1426K Buf, 3752K Free > Swap: 40M Total, 40M Free Hmm, what a nice clean system you have. :-) 17 processes - wow! No swap in use. Can you also send one missing line from the top output (I mean CPU stats). I think it might be interesting to look at - probably your system is doing something, or it spends unusual time in interrupt processing? Regards, -- Anton Berezin The Protein Laboratory, University of Copenhagen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message