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Problems with new NetBSD installed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Khusid)
Fri Jun 20 11:03:13 1997
From: Michael Khusid <mkhusid@MIT.EDU>
To: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 11:02:36 EDT
Hello everyone,
I have recently installed NetBSD on my computer, and you know,
it works. Because of rather old computer, I decided not to configure
X, so that computer runs only in ttymode (and I am fine with that).
Now, the unnice thingie:
The system is slow, and I have no idea why.
For example, if there is one user there are damn high load averages:
>w
10:57AM up 1 day, 9:34, 1 user, load averages: 2.15, 1.54, 0.74
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT
mkhusid p0 SOMEHOST 10:53AM 0 w
Considering I didn't customize the system, there are no background
processes running except very standard ones.
Now, about the computer: it is 486-25, with 12M of RAM, and plenty
of disk space.
I know that at work I have 486DX2-66 with 16M of RAM under Linux, and
it runs very fast.
Could anyone explain me the reason of that slow behavior please?
Any suggestions how to speed up computer (not hardware related suggestions
please) are very welcome.
I am not on this list, so please reply to me personally,
Mike
mkhusid@mit.edu
