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Date:      Sat, 3 Feb 2001 00:29:33 -0800 (PST)
From:      Marc W <mwlist@lanfear.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   FreeBSD tanks on an Athlon 750
Message-ID:  <200102030829.AAA71149@akira.lanfear.com>

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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.






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