[ug-bosug] SXDE : 2 serious reliability issues

[Sanjeev Bagewadi]

Manish
Manish Chakravarty wrote:
> Hi Sanjeev,
>
> The KDE + deps checkout has a lot of small files ( around 10,000+ .h , .cpp
> and .h files)
> In addition there around 1000 .png and .svgz bin files for the
> artwork/icons/etc.
>   
If the file sizes are small try disabling the compression.
Have separate FS for KDE build and put this under that.

Regards,
Sanjeev.

> About nwam, I guess I will disable it.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sanjeev.Bagewadi at Sun.COM [mailto:Sanjeev.Bagewadi at Sun.COM] 
> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 10:32 AM
> To: manishchaks at gmail.com
> Cc: Bangalore OpenSolaris User Group
> Subject: Re: [ug-bosug] SXDE : 2 serious reliability issues
>
> Manish,
>
> Manish Chakravarty wrote:
>   
>>     This is problem in your case because, the zfs cache would have grown
>>     during the build. Now when you login
>>     the JDS binaries which sit on UFS need to be loaded and that needs to
>>     throw out what ZFS cached. This is right now
>>     is not very smooth and hence you could be seeing the sluggishness....
>>
>>
>> Should I just use UFS for the entire hard disk for the time being?
>>     
> No, don't do that. Just try limiting the ARC size.
>
> Also, do the KDE checkouts have a lot of small files ? Or does it have a 
> lot of compressed files
> (ie. *gz or zip) ?
>
> If that is the case you are better off not having compression.
>   
>> I know ZFS root post-install is possible. It seemed a little tricky 
>> for me.
>>  
>>
>>
>>
>>     The NWAM dropping the line possibly means the signal seems to be
>>     dropping at times...
>>     I use it at home for days without any issue (infact I am punched in to
>>     office network for over a day).
>>
>>
>> My office laptop ( which is an HP plugged into the same wireless 
>> network at my home, runs XP ) did not disconnect the entire night. My 
>> personal laptop ( which runs SXDE ) had around 50+ disconnections over 
>> a period of 12 hours.
>>
>> And Ubuntu, which runs on the same laptop on the same wireless 
>> network, never disconnects as well.
>> It could either be
>>  - the driver wpi0
>>  - flaky nwam ( which i think is the culprit )
>>     
> Then don't use NWAM and see if that fixes it.
> I used the same wpi driver on my Sony vaio and worked well.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Sanjeev.
>
>
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