[ug-bosug] SXDE : 2 serious reliability issues

[Manish Chakravarty]

Hi BOSUG,

I have been working almost 12 hours straight on my SXDE desktop.
I am using the default GNOME desktop to do KDE4 builds :)

The machine has serious issues, and it has had an uptime of just 12 hours.

1) nwam/wireless reliablility

nwam brings wpi0 ( my wireless interface ) down and up whenever it wants to.
I wanted to ssh into my laptop and work; laptops tend to heat a lot when
you're building stuff for some amount of time.

Nwam unreliability issues make working remotely impossible, more than one
svn checkout broke :(

2) Desktop becomes very unresponsive

I have a decent configuration ( 2 GB RAM, Intel Core 2 Duo T5450, 64 bit
Dual core ).
I have a 160 GB HDD with /export/home on ZFS ( with compression set on )

The way KDE4 builds itself is that
 - Sun cc
 - No parallel builds ( just one .c/.cpp file being compiled at one time)
- The entire build process runs in my home dir and deploys .pkgs to /opt

After building each package ( each build takes around 15-30 mins), I notice
that
 - After entering my password ( since the screen locks ) , it takes 15-30
secs to draw the screen
- System slows down and is almost unusable ( Mind you, the build has
completed at this point)
- Logging in typically takes nwam down and up again ( automatically, this is
somehow linked to #1 )
- I see that RAM usage is really really high (all of my 2GB ram and ~140
megs of swap is used )

I know Solaris/OpenSolaris are known for their exceptional stability and
uptime.
But my SXDE is essentially unusuable for long development work :(

Thus I guess I must doing something wrong
( Or may not be doing something , like some patches/tweaks that I dont know
of )

Would greatly appreciate if someone can give me pointers on this.

-- Manish
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