Man pages take forever on slow machine?

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

So did the O.P. but he's dissatisfied with the speed.

Ted

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Irvin Piraman [mailto:ippiraman at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 10:26 PM
> To: Ted Mittelstaedt
> Cc: scott at sremick.net; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Man pages take forever on slow machine?
> 
> 
> I got 5.2.1 running on P133+16MB RAM+2GB HDD
> 
> Irvin
> 
> 
> On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 22:22:33 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt
> <tedm at toybox.placo.com> wrote:
> > 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/IS
> O-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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