From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 3 0:29:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from akira.lanfear.com (akira.lanfear.com [208.12.11.174]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 305A537B4EC for ; Sat, 3 Feb 2001 00:29:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from sapporo.lanfear.com (h-64-105-36-216.snvacaid.covad.net [64.105.36.216]) by akira.lanfear.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA71149 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 3 Feb 2001 00:29:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwlist@lanfear.com) Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 00:29:33 -0800 (PST) From: Marc W Message-Id: <200102030829.AAA71149@akira.lanfear.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD tanks on an Athlon 750 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Mailer: Kiltdown 0.7 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG eeek! perhaps SLIGHTLY off topic, but hopefully people are feeling generous today :-) I have an 750Mhz AMD Athlon machine here running FreeBSD 4.1 (and Solaris 8/Intel), and for some reason, it's the slowest machine I've got, by a good margin. My other machines are a PII 450, a dual PII400, and a K6/2-450, all of which SMOKE the 750. Compile times under FreeBSD are, at best, a fifth of what I see on the other machines. So, the question is -- any ideas as to what could be causing the slowdown? I recently installed a PC133 256MB DIMM on the thing to try and help out, but that's not it. It's got an IDE drive for Solaris (sloooo...) and an 8ms/7200 9GB SCSI drive for FreeBSD that is no faster. Controller is a 2940. Video card is a (theoretically) smoking NVIDIA TNT2, and should certainly have NO bearing whatsoever on compile performance .... Any ideas why this machine might be tanking so bad?? it's quite sad, really ... :( thanks! marc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message