[desktop-discuss] Re: JDS still very sluggish

[Richard L. Hamilton]

> > > What kinds of slowness ? For eg. Slow login/
> Slow
> > >  Firefox startup/ 
> > > luggish Menu response/ Anything else ?
> > >    Is anything hogging your CPU ?
> > >  Have you tried the following tweaks:
> > >    svcadm disable basicreg
> > > pkgrm SUNWupdatemgru
> > >    pkgrm SUNWbrg
> > > gards,
> > > Moinak.
> > 
> > These tweaks most definitely help :-)
> 
> Altho ... I have just installed Debian Etch on my
> Java Workstation - and it is - I really hate to say
> this - _much_ faster on desktop operations than the
> current implementation of Vermillion on Solaris
> Express (build 65). Programs (Firefox, OpenOffice
> etc.) as well as the desktop itself (Nautilus!) are
> just so much snappier on Debian - ok, Nevada is still
> under heavy development, but still ...

You've also got a debug kernel I think, which may be _slightly_ slower
than a production kernel.

And unless you have a comparable accelerated video driver for both OSs,
it's not going to be a meaningful comparison anyway.
 
 
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