From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 17 10:31:28 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94DE0106564A for ; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:31:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brentgclarklist@gmail.com) Received: from mail.eccotours.biz (mail.eccotours.biz [196.36.10.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 264488FC15 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:31:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brentgclarklist@gmail.com) Received: from [192.168.111.31] by mail.eccotours.biz with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LjWZw-0003Yl-Gs for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:31:24 +0200 Message-ID: <49BF7BFC.2010408@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:31:24 +0200 From: Brent Clark User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090103) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Compiling everything myself? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:31:28 -0000 > I have been using Debian for some years and have gotten tired by > system freezes, having a slow system, and having a package system that > requires that I install every skin of KDE to get KDE up and running. > > I hope FreeBSD will be better! :-) Hiya Im all for one compiling software for ones self, BUT the fact that you mention system freezes and a slow system is very suspect. Its in your best interest to get a live cd and run memcheck and more importantly check your hardware. Also have you check your machine, by using system tools such as top, netstat, vmstat, iostat, lsof etc, basically to check what your machine is doing and whats it up too. HTH Regards Brent Clark