On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 03:45:22AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2002-12-17 10:57, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday, 16 December 2002 at 10:09:48 -0800, Chris Doherty wrote: > > > > > > 2) I'm scared that 5.0 is going to be unpleasantly slow on my p2-366, let > > > alone a 386. > > > > I'm running it diskless on a K6/233. I'm surprised how snappy it is. > > I still have the Pentium 133 with 64 MB or memory that I used to run > 5.0-CURRENT until a few weeks ago. I haven't got any real numbers, > but the general `feel' of the system was pretty good. Trying to build > world & kernel on a 386 though... now that's a very different story! :) > Yup. But the slowness people are noting in general is explained in UPDATING, and is quite understandable at this point in 5.0's evolution. It certainly takes a *lot* longer than 4.7 (test machine 1GHZ Pentium III, 512MB memory, SCSI disk).
Also didn't someone mention that GCC has got slower anyway ? -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
