Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 21:35:09 -0800 From: "Michael C. Shultz" <reso3w83@verizon.net> To: scott@sremick.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Man pages take forever on slow machine? Message-ID: <200412282135.10346.reso3w83@verizon.net> In-Reply-To: <20041229052652.27086.qmail@web53607.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20041229052652.27086.qmail@web53607.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Tuesday 28 December 2004 09:26 pm, Scott I. Remick wrote: > Ok so I got over my hurdle getting FreeBSD 5.3 installed on this old > Presario (it ended up being RAM... needed more than 16MB to get > through install, borrowed some and then could then back off to > default 16MB after 5.3 was on). I thought I was on a roll until I > "accidentally" tried to bring up a man page. It has been on > "Formatting page, please wait..." ever since. > > I didn't pay attention to when, but I think it was at least an hour > ago. Yes, an HOUR. And I still don't have my man page. > > Yes this isn't the fastest machine (I think it's a Pentium 133MHz, > 16MB RAM) Until last summer I was running KDE on a pentium 166 with 98meg memory and it worked pretty well. You probably just need to scrounge up a little more memory. -Mike > but really... I ran FreeBSD 2.2.2 as a webserver on a 486 > 66MHz "back in the day". I'd expect this to be slow, but... 1+ hours > for a man page? > > It's worse than that, though. I can't CTRL-C out. I get lots of > ^C^C^C^C but it won't stop. I can use ALT-F2 and ALT-F3 to load up > additional VTTYs but they are unresponsive... I type and nothing > appears. Maybe if I come back a LONG while later I see some of my > keystrokes. > > I was trying to do a good deed by recycling some old hardware my dad > had and give him a FreeBSD server to learn with. But this is bizarre. > Asking for a man page has brought this system to its knees. C'mon... > it ran Windows 95. I think we can do better than this....? It's not > even going to be GUI. > > Any advice? Thanks in-advance... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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