[ug-bosug] SXDE : 2 serious reliability issues

[Moinak Ghosh]

Ananth Shrinivas wrote:
>> 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 )
>>
>>     
>
> [...]
> * Limit ARC size 
> (http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Evil_Tuning_Guide)
>   

   This should not be needed on a 2GB system. ZFS ARC will eat till 1GB and
   leave the other gig alone.

> For desktop usability
> * If you are running a dual core laptop, bind your compilation shell 
> (and hence all its sub-processes) to a Single CPU. Make the other CPU 
> free and usable for your desktop purposes.
> * Jail your build inside a whole root zone or a VirtualBox instance and 
> apply Solaris resource controls to it.
>   

   Yup. A KDE build zone. Hey maybe this can be one topic of the next BOSUG
   meet. Manish can get his laptop and we can set up this zone with 
appropriate
   resource controls.

Regards,
Moinak.

> Cheers,
> Ananth
>
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