From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 4 1:32:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from usgs.gov (igsmn002.wr.usgs.gov [130.118.41.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CE14314CC7 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 01:32:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsowders@usgs.gov) Received: from IGSMN-Message_Server by usgs.gov with Novell_GroupWise; Sun, 04 Jul 1999 01:32:45 -0700 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.2 Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 01:32:28 -0700 From: "Robert Sowders" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, a.genkin@utoronto.ca Subject: Re: solved (was: FreeBSD is painfully slow on my 486) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sorry, I could have saved you some time, had I read my email. There is a bios setting for enabling the internal cache, yours was apparently off. =20 Curios, the default is on, wonder how it switched off? >>> Arcady Genkin 7/3/99 12:16:36 AM >>> Thank you again to everyone who responded to my problem. It eventually=20 solved when I loaded BIOS defaults. I don't know for sure what the problem was, but I think that it had something to do with cache, because now it says "Cache 256Kb" at boot-up, and it didn't previously. --=20 Arcady Genkin "... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org=20 with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message