From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 21 09:23:14 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3096716A4CE for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 09:23:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from nature.Berkeley.EDU (nature.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.253.219]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01F6943D1F for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 09:23:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gvrdolja@nature.Berkeley.EDU) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nature.Berkeley.EDU (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2574FC1E39; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 09:23:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from nature.Berkeley.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (nature [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 12765-09; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 09:23:11 -0800 (PST) Received: by nature.Berkeley.EDU (Postfix, from userid 7458) id 2B187C1E3B; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 09:23:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nature.Berkeley.EDU (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD5AFC1E40; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 09:23:10 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 09:23:10 -0800 (PST) From: Gordon Vrololjak To: Julian Holley In-Reply-To: <400E9846.4C3D4FE7@holley.uklinux.net> Message-ID: References: <400E9846.4C3D4FE7@holley.uklinux.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at nature.berkeley.edu cc: "freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Speed ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 17:23:14 -0000 Recompile the kernel.... it speeds it up a lot for me and solve the unresponsiveness. Remove unecessary stuff not in your computer. \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Gordon Ante Vrdoljak Electron Microscope Lab ICQ 23243541 http://nature.berkeley.edu/~gvrdolja 26 Giannini Hall gvrdolja@nature.berkeley.edu UC Berkeley phone (510) 642-2085 Berkeley CA 94720-3330 fax (510) 643-6207 cell (510) 290-6793 On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Julian Holley wrote: > Hi folks - I recently installed FreeBSD 5.2 on an IBM TP 390x on which I > have successfully run Linux 2.2.* for years now, but I notice that BSD > seems to be distinctly slowly - I mean in regards to user interact - > i.e. desktop development (as you can imagine it's not a server) .... > this is not what I expected, I thought FreeBSD would be about the same > or maybe faster (more snappy) - is this usual ? or do I have somat wrong > with my installation ? J > > also anyone else using FreeBSD on IBM laptops - as both APM and APCI > seem to fail for my machine :( > > -- > > Powered by IBM Running Linux > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >