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To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Subject: Re: low-mem machines awfully slow now 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 12 Nov 1995 12:22:04 +0100."
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Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 03:52:18 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> I'm just testing a self-compiled snapshot of 2.1.  As usual, i'm using
> a spare 386sx/16 with 6 MB RAM for this.
> 
> I noticed that the installation procedure became *awfully* slow now.
> At the first attempt, i've even given up since i thought the
> installation was dead.  The machine were stuck with the ``Creating
> root file system'' message.  Eventually, after about a minute or so,

Hmmm.  Any swap space configured?  One recent change I made was to do
the swapon first, before anything else (e.g. newfs'ing root).   It's
possible that this is having some strange effects, though the lack of
disk activity means that traditional swapping-to-death behavior
is not the cause.

Also, don't forget that everything in /stand is crunched, so it will
take some time to decompress things in memory if you're running them
from there.  More than that, I can't really say..

					Jordan