5 hours! 5 Hours!
How long does it take on my 16MB uVII? can you say days...
but it does just keep running!!
bob


Chris Tribo wrote:
> 
>         You need to upgrade to the December 6th VAX snapshot (1.4P). The
> reason it is so slow is that the kernel is running on PIO mode 0
> SCSI. (very slow). 1.4P has a stable DMA SCSI kernel that will make your
> 3100 feel like a whole new machine :) It appears to be able to handle
> doing a low volume ftp/web box with a decent HD inside. The m30 doesn't
> have CPU speed to marvel at, but I think it'll build a kernel with DMA
> SCSI in about 5 hours or so. Probably reduced further with -current.
> 
>         Chris
> 
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Paul Everett wrote:
> 
> >
> > I've got a VS3100/m30 with 16mb of ram running 1.4.1.
> >
> > I'm curious though - other than developing stuff for NetBSD/VAX, what does
> > everyone use their machines for? I find mine to be a bit on the slow side
> > to really do anything useful. Or is my machine just a lot slower then the
> > models everyone else has?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Paul
> >
> >
> > --
> > Paul Everett                                 Microsoft is not the answer.
> > repton at repton dot org                       Microsoft is the question.
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> >    "God, root, what is the difference?" - Pitr, www.userfriendly.org
> >