[desktop-discuss] Re: JDS still very sluggish

[Nicolas Linkert]

> > > > 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.

Are you sure? I thought Solaris Express comes with a non-Debug kernel?

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

It's actually the nv driver for both systems ...
 
 
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