Man pages take forever on slow machine?

[Ramiro Aceves]

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.