Man pages take forever on slow machine?

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

FreeBSD 4.10 is OK on a 16MB Pentium 133Mhz system, espically if
you recompile the kernel to make it smaller.  But I wouldn't try
5.3.

Better on these older and smaller systems is FreeBSD 3.5.1 you
can get it here:

ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/3
.5.1/

3.5.1 also still supports the old CMD 640 ide controller if you
have the misfortune to have one of those.

Of course, if your going to put a 3.5.1 system on the Internet, it
is a requirement you have a full source tree because your going
to have to patch the hell out of it, and recompile the kernel and
a bunch of daemons.

Ted

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Scott I. Remick
> Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 9:27 PM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Man pages take forever on slow machine?
>
>
> 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)
> 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...
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