From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 16 9:23:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp3.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net (smtp3.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net [206.210.69.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D5EA337B416 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 09:23:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 8974 invoked from network); 16 Jan 2002 17:23:44 -0000 Received: from dap-209-166-135-77.nfas.greensburg-tnt-1.sns234.pa.stargate.net (HELO wastegate.net) (209.166.135.77) by smtp3.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net with SMTP; 16 Jan 2002 17:23:44 -0000 Received: from mother.wastegate.net (mother.wg.local [192.168.1.2]) by wastegate.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 5FF9F48425; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 12:24:02 -0500 (EST) From: "Doug Reynolds" To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , "soralx@cydem.zp.ua" Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 12:25:54 -0500 Reply-To: "Doug Reynolds" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2380) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Re[2]: slow console Message-Id: <20020116172402.5FF9F48425@wastegate.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 21:33:11 -0700, soralx@cydem.zp.ua wrote: >>> If somebody has something like Pentium-166 or slower, you can see >>> that console in FreeBSD works really slowly. For example, launch >>> MidnightCommander(mc), press and hold the 'Tab' key. You'll see that >>> when it changes between panels, the command line doesn't change >>> appropriately (when it is in different directories). Then try the >>> same in Linux - it works excellent. Or, try `ls -alF /dev` in the >>> both systems - in Linux it works much faster (considering that it >>> shows 'em in color!). Why? What can I do to expedite the console? >>> P.S.: sorry for my English :) > >DR> i dont know- i ran freebsd 4.0 on a 486dx4-133 with 28 megs of ram, and >DR> everything ran perfectly from the console, >I just wanted to say that it works much slower than it should be (on >Linux or windoze, for example). The console could be !much faster. It >must work perfectly, without any delays, because it is VGA_80x25 text >mode! >Did you try to install MC and hold ? unfortantely not- i had no need for it since it was just a DoD ppp server. I did have pine- didn't have any lag with it. try updating to 4.5-RC - they have fixed a lot of bug with that. >DR> aside from taking a while from compiling a kernel >Yep. >But in Linux on P[MMX]-200 machine it takes about 10 hours to >compile the kernel :) kernel on that machine was around 2.5-3 hours. --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net PGP Public Key Fingerprint: 6E7B 9993 B503 6D45 E33A 2019 26E5 C1DB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message