From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 21 15:55:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA03855 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 21 Nov 1998 15:55:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA03849 for ; Sat, 21 Nov 1998 15:55:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA31951; Sat, 21 Nov 1998 23:54:40 GMT Message-ID: <365752C0.E83B0B0E@tdx.co.uk> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 23:54:40 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX - The Digital eXchange X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: PARADOX@DEPAUW.EDU CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cpu upgrade, 486SX25 -> ?, feasible? References: <01J4FTA2XNHU00F0KR@DEPAUW.EDU> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG PARADOX@DEPAUW.EDU wrote: > > Hi - > > Due to various upgradings, a Zenith Z-Select 100, 486SX-25, has become > available for me to use 24/7 for FreeBSD. > > Do I need to say it, it's slooooooow, especially where it counts, in > compiling. I am mightily tempted to upgrade the cpu. I know that bus speed, > disk access, etc. will be unaffected, but it's cpu speed (and lack of fpu?) > that's really bogging things down. This isn't really _freebsd_ related you know? ;-) > I do realize that the right thing to do is go with a new mb, but that would > require at least a new case and a video card, not to mention the new cpu. > At the moment that's too costly an option. > > Anybody gone the upgrade route? Any advice? And in the event it should > happen, is all that would be necessary before the swap is a to beild a new, > appropriate, kernel? We quite happily run a number of 486 class machines here, we know the limitations before we set out (i.e. there not going to build the world with any great speed - if at all). Our current firewall system is built out of an i486-25's and it works fine... If you really are going to be compiling a lot (remember FreeBSD has the pre-compiled 'packages' collections as well as 'ports') you might want to consider a faster machine... Kp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message