[desktop-discuss] JDS still very sluggish

[Bart Smaalders]

Moinak Ghosh wrote:
> Nicolas Linkert wrote:
>> I've installed build 64a Solaris Express, and desktop operations on 
>> JDS are still very sluggish. It's slower than running Ubuntu 7.04 from 
>> CD ... Part of this seems to stem from UFS - with zfs I have 
>> experienced a considerable improvement in this regard. It's still not 
>> what one expects, but it's much better.
>>
>> I have no figures at all to prove this. This is all just a feeling of 
>> how the systems performs. Java Workstation, single 2,4 GB Opteron, 2 
>> GB RAM, 500 GB hard disk (zfs boot/ufs boot) etc.
>>   
> 
>   What kinds of slowness ? For eg. Slow login/ Slow Firefox startup/ 
> Sluggish Menu response/ Anything else ?
>   Is anything hogging your CPU ?

The other thing to check is to run intrstat as root; I've seen
some interesting problems w/ interrupt storms w/ some bioses....

- Bart

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