misc/62611: bzip2 have problems on pentium 100 (pkg_add dont work)

[Kris Kennaway]

The following reply was made to PR misc/62611; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>
To: xxx xxx <torindel at wp.pl>
Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>,
	freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: misc/62611: bzip2 have problems on pentium 100 (pkg_add dont work)
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 04:27:50 -0800

 On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 01:14:08PM +0100, xxx xxx wrote:
 > 
 > 
 > Dnia 10-02-2004 o godz. 6:58 Kris Kennaway napisa?(a):
 > > 
 > > If it's swapping because there system doesn't have enough
 > memory (you
 > > didn't specify how much), it's going to work really slow (really
 > > REALLY slow on a Pentium 100).  How long did you wait before
 > deciding
 > > it was not producing any more output?
 > > 
 > > Kris
 > >
 > It doesn't have much ram: 16MB + 256MB swap; I waited about 8
 > hours and nothing: it prodces 150k output in max 5 mins and after
 > that only allocates/deallocates small amounts of swap space
 > (makes Swap in, Swap out in top). I have about 0.5MB free ram
 > after boot. If it need a lot of ram it should say so, instead it
 > stucks in some raceing condition.
 
 It does say so: you noticed it yourself in the previous sentence.  Any
 time you run the machine out of RAM and start thrashing swap,
 performance is going to go down the drain even on a fast machine.
 
 > (This computer where firewall on 4.x, on any 5.1/5.2 i cant
 > pkg_add cause of bzip2 :[ )
 
 16MB is evidently not enough RAM to do what you want with the
 machine..I recommend sticking with the 4.x branch.
 
 Kris