Subject: Re: Slow performance on a G3 450 machine?
To: Dave Hartnell <Hartnell@techbc.ca>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 01/08/2001 19:34:41
	NetBSD 1.5 should include ssh by default. For other programs,
	your easiest option is pkgsrc (see www.netbsd.org)

		David/absolute		-- www.netbsd.org: No hype required --


On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Dave Hartnell wrote:

> I finally got Openfirmware all figured out and the machine running fine.
>
> Now i'm trying to get the basics installed like bash and SSHD.
>
> first thing i noticed is that even scrolling text on this machine is very
> slow compared to even a Pentium 200.
>
> After ftp'ing down the source for ssh and bash and running tar to extract
> them i notice that its not just scrolling but everything on this machine is
> very slow.. it took almost 5minutes to compile bash.
>
> Has anyone seen this before?
>
> The machine is a G3-450,1meg backside cache, 256megs ram, <blue&white tower>
> ati vid card, scsi drives etc etc..
>
> All i can say is this doesnt look right at all.. i was expecting performance
> to be amazing with the PPC..
>
> Thanks in advance
> Dave
>