From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 30 9:59:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 654DB37B400 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:59:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-34-52.knology.net [24.214.34.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAE8243E3B for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:59:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7UGxLlt096227; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 11:59:21 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: (from dkelly@localhost) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g7UGxLWV096226; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 11:59:21 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 11:59:21 -0500 From: David Kelly To: Marc Schneiders Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is this box so slow? Message-ID: <20020830165921.GB96186@grumpy.dyndns.org> References: <20020830144957.C27785-100000@voo.doo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020830144957.C27785-100000@voo.doo.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 02:55:15PM +0200, Marc Schneiders wrote: > I am running FreeBSD 4 stable on a Pentium II 300 with sufficient RAM, > I think. Nevertheless certain things are very, very slow. A buildworld > takes days. Also opening a large (18 MB file) with vi doesn't work out > for ages. (I am now waiting 5 minutes and still nothing to edit...) I have (4) nearly identical Dell Optiplex PII-300's with FreeBSD. IIRC about 2 hours to "make buildworld" on 3 of the 4. 64MB RAM. No X11. After much investigation the 4th, which builds about half as fast, had a 5400 RPM 6G HD while the others have 7200 RPM drives at 4G. I did not expect the drive to make that much difference. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message