Man pages take forever on slow machine?

Michael C. Shultz reso3w83 at verizon.net
Tue Dec 28 21:38:07 PST 2004


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...
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