Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:39:28 +0100 From: Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz@wanadoo.es> To: scott@sremick.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Man pages take forever on slow machine? Message-ID: <41D27B50.70105@wanadoo.es> In-Reply-To: <20041229052652.27086.qmail@web53607.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20041229052652.27086.qmail@web53607.mail.yahoo.com>
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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. > <snip> My pentium 100 MHz with 16 MB RAM runs smoothly with FreeBSD 4.10 , it even runs fvwm under X. I am not able to run 5.3 install, as I only have 16MB, I was suspecting that I need more memory for the install proccess. When I get another 16MB RAM to test, I will tell you. Will it be necessary to change the memory requirements in he handbook? We will see. Ramiro.
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