Subject: Re: Slow 486 seems really slow
To: Jonathan R. Hinds <jon@fork.yi.org>
From: None <bsd@manumission.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/15/2000 14:15:31
And thus spake Jonathan R. Hinds:
> This does not seem to be too much slower. And the kernel is still taking
> upwards of 12 hours to compile.
This reminds me of the days when I ran NetBSD 1.0 on my old 486SLC2/66
with 16MB. The system worked fine normally, but would seem to `freeze'
on big compiles. There'd be no activity: no disk writes, and the compiler
would stay on the same file for ages. Touching a single key on the
console would unwedge it. So one solution is to periodically tap
the keyboard.
If I recall, another solution was to start a background loop on another
VT doing:
while /bin/true; do
sleep 60
date
done
I was never able to track down why this happened -- I didn't even
know where to begin. There were never any console messages. And
from trawling the mail-indices, it looks like I never reported it.
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