[ug-bosug] system upgrade ,needed help!

[Raju Alluri]

Here are the typical times:

- Power-ON to Grub Screen: 5 sec
- Grub screen: 15 seconds (It goes from CentOS grub to Solaris Grub, hence
it is more. This is in case of an unattended system. If you hit a couple of
Enters, then this is zero.)
- OpenSolaris Boot Time: 55seconds (Including services like webconsole.)
This is Build 72. Other builds may have slightly different times.

So I am up to login screen within 1.5 minutes if I leave the system
unattended. Much faster if I hit Enters when grub shows up.

Here are some other response times during sparsely populated conditions:

- Time from I enter my password to responsive enough GNOME desktop: 15
seconds
- OpenOffice: 10-15 seconds
- Netbeans 6.0: 45 seconds

Cost: Depends on who you buy it from. I bought it from an off-the-street
vendor by hand picking the components. He assembled the box. Excluding the
monitor, it would have been 16K. I bought used memory and the cost is much
lower. I am talking about Sep 2007. Now the costs would be lower. I got one
DVD Writer and another CD-Writer/DVD-ROM combo. You may save about 1K there
if you are going for just the DVD writer.

Overall, I took a risk by not going for a branded system and the cost is
about 30% lower, as per the rates of that time. Based on the system
performance so far, that is a good decision.

Regards,
- Raju



On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Manish Chakravarty <manishchaks at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Raju,
>
> how fast is this system? Could you give me an approximate boot time to
> CDE/GDM login screen?
> It would be helpful for me as I am looking out for a system for myself.
> Also, how much did you spend on this machine?
>
> Thanks
> Manish
>
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Raju Alluri <spurthi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Sham,
> > Welcome to the club! :-).
> >
> > I have been using AMD X2 4400+ with nVidia/GeForce 6150 chipset. Running
> > SXDE (b72) for the
> > last 6 months and it is running simply fine.
> >
> > Here is my configuration bought in September:
> >     http://raju.spurthi.com/blog/?p=329
> >
> > In fact, my desktop is a real workhorse and runs at an amazing speed
> > with 2GB RAM when running Solaris.
> >
> > Regards,
> > - Raju
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 8:33 PM, Anil Gulecha <anil.verve at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On 3/24/08, Ashwin Bhat <ashwinbhatks at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > AFAIK AMD 64 support for Belenix is still in progress. Intel Core 2
> > > Duo
> > > > would be a better choice.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Nope.. belenix runs great on 64-bit processors. Intels core2Duo
> > > implements AMD64 specs.. so anything that runs on core2duo will run on
> > > AMD, AFAIK.
> > >
> > > Anil
> > >
> > > PS : You might be talking about LiveCD mode that is 32bit. I dont
> > > think there are plans to change this. The opensolaris kernel is
> > > intelligent and the same packages are installed on both 32-bit and
> > > 64-bit systems. Upon bootup, opensolaris recognizes the type of
> > > processor and runs in that mode :) So any distro based on opensolaris
> > > will behave this way, including Belenix, indiana, etc.
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