Re: mulinux & AMD CPU

From: Michele Andreoli (m.andreoli@tin.it)
Date: Thu Oct 04 2001 - 17:46:29 CEST


On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 12:34:15AM +1000, Charles Littlefield nicely wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently installed mulinux (V11r12) on a 486SX-33MHz machine with 8MB RAM
> and it worked but seemed to be running slowly. E.G. "PS" only lists
> processes at the rate of about one per second. I assume this is due to the
> relatively slow CPU.

"ps" is a simple script. You will find a good ps in an addon.

>
> A few days ago, a workmate gave me an AM486DE2-66V8TGC CPU. I thought this
> would be a way of increasing the speed of my machine and in fact it does run
> faster. All programs/OS's on the machine work, including MINIX 2.0.0 but
> not mulinux. What happens is after "uncompressing linux..." appears the
> machine reboots. I can replace the CPU with the original and everything
> works as mentioned above. If I reduce the AMD CPU speed to 25MHz (50MHz
> internal) mulinux runs but as soon as I put it back to 33MHz (66Mhz
> internal) the problem reoccurrs.
>

I cannot help.

Michele

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