On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 11:01:07PM +0000, Janke Knolli wrote:

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> Hi, my first post here. I just installed OpenBSD 4.2 from the "official"

> CD's on a Sun Ultra 5 270Mhz 128MB RAM with mouse, keyboard (5C) and a

> ordinary vga monitor. All smooth and good.

>

> Then there's the problem:

> Reading MAN-pages is *very* slow in virtual console/terminal. When I use

> PAGE-DOWN/PAGE-UP it takes 3-4 seconds before the screen updates. Now I've

> asked several places, googled around and found nothing I can do to improve

> performance in virtual console. Is this really normal behaviour on a Sun

> Ultra 5? And is there anything I can do to speed it up? It's ouchie ouchie

> to learn a new OS when reading MAN-pages equals pain (due to 3-4 sec. wait

> every page I scroll)

I think you'll find mention of this kind of thing in the archives.

One possibility is to use a light-weight window manager (cwm, dwm,

fvwm, etc.) as a kind of decorated terminal (Likely you won't regret

having installed the X sets).