[ug-bosug] SXDE : 2 serious reliability issues

[Manish Chakravarty]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Sanjeev Bagewadi <Sanjeev.Bagewadi at sun.com>
wrote:

> 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

Ok.
Should i set compression to on or off for this KDE FS?

>
> 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.
> >
> >
> >
>
>


-- 
Manish Chakravarty
http://manish-chaks.livejournal.com/
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