Ben Mesander <bam@dimensional.com> wrote:

Ben> At 5:40 PM -0700 11/2/99, Wonko the Sane (Brian
Ben> Hechinger) wrote:

>> what is the real-world speed of a 16Mhz 68030 with 8MB
>> ram?

8MB of RAM is not sufficient if you want to run X server on
your machine.  It just works, but significantly slow due to
paging overhead to the harddrive.

Ben> It took 3 days to compile a netbsd kernel on my se/30
Ben> with 8M. Upgrading to more ram (I have 68M now) helps a
Ben> bit, but it's not that speedy.

Why not just use mfs for /tmp?  Though I don't have any data
to compare with, it might help speeding up some, anyway.

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