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From: "Eric Ho" <eho@fore.com>
To: "Tal S Eilon" <tale@cybertel.co.il>,
	"Alexander Langer" <alex@big.endian.de>
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Subject: RE: Slow Dell PowerEdge 1300 with FreeBSD 3.4
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 23:49:50 +0800
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> I compiled it as you said and it took 13 hours to recompile the
> new kernel.
> Now it does recognize 512MB of RAM but still processing everything dead
> slow.
> It took me close to 25min to compile tcsh-6.09.00, this is not a joke!

This doesn't sound right even on an i486?!


>
> Maybe this can help?
>
> --
> Copyright (c) 1992-1999 FreeBSD Inc.
> Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
>         The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
> FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE #0: Tue Apr 25 02:23:41 GMT 2000
>     root@bell.superbanner.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/BELL
> Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
> CPU: Pentium III (498.48-MHz 686-class CPU)
>   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x673  Stepping = 3
>
> Features=0x383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTR
> R,PGE,MCA,
> CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,<b25>>
> real memory  = 536870912 (524288K bytes)
> avail memory = 519454720 (507280K bytes)
> --
>
> --Tal
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Alexander Langer
> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 11:50 AM
> To: Tal S Eilon
> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: Slow Dell PowerEdge 1300 with FreeBSD 3.4
>
>
> Thus spake Tal S Eilon (tale@cybertel.co.il):
>
> > 1. The system did not detect my Adaptec SCSI Card which I use for my
> >    backup tape, so I had to remove it or it would not boot at all
>                                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Why?
>
> >    with MAXMEM of 512MB but with no success since the system is too slow
> to
> > compile.
>
> Too slow to compile? That is a joke.
> Try it again.
>
> > So now I am very confused about what I should do next? any
> ideas would be
> > very welcome...
>
> compile the kernel with MAXMEM.
>
> Alex
>
> --
> I need a new ~/.sig.
>
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