Hi, I run OI 148 + patches on a sony laptop with 4GB of RAM using gnome as a desktop. I can say for me I don't notice any desktop slowness.
A couple of points: -My graphics card is reasonably well supported. -My laptop has plenty of ram - often an issue that can cause slowness as OI loves to cache disks heavily. -the default flash player is broken on 148 and gives issues with full screen video etc. Once that was updated I am able to play full screen HD video flawlessly. I also have custom-built blender that I also use without any issue and can render images at a similar speed to linux. -I updated my bios to allow me full 64 bit access Bugs I have found: -Gnome occasionally ends up corrupting itself on shutdown - not sure what's causing it and its not often enough to spend my time on. I end up losing one of the top applets and have to re-insert it. -NWAM keeps losing my wifi connection. It's a nasty program and needs replacing with something that works properly. I haven;t found any good reason not to use OI as a desktop (work) machine. One thing I would maybe push for is out of the box support for other filesystems such as ext2/3/4, vfat, etc Rgds, Colin On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Sriram Narayanan <sri...@belenix.org>wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Ken Gunderson <kgund...@teamcool.net> > wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 19:24 +0530, Sriram Narayanan wrote: > >> Hi everyone: > >> > >> I've been using openindiana as my primary desktop environment while I > >> work on Belenix related development (illumos kernel, rpm, etc). > >> > >> I've not felt a single slow down ever in my use of OI. I've used both > >> build 147 as well as 148. IPS sucks for me given the low bandwidth and > >> the calculations it does each time. But Gnome itself it fine. > >> > >> However, I've seen these recent threads (one on branding, and one test > >> drive) where Gnome was mentioned as being slow. > >> > >> Has anyone else also experienced this ? Are there any known reasons ? > > > > Pretty much everything seems to run slower on "Slowaris" on the desktop > > front. If in doubt, buy another hd, same as you're using now, and make > > a native install Linux poison of choice, e.g. Fedora 15, Debian-6, etc. > > (i.e. not virtualized) and the difference is quite noticeable. > > > > "Slowlaris" was a term used only for the TCP/IP stack of Solaris 9. > The entire TCP/IP stack was changed with the FireEngine project which > improved things a lot. Crossbow built on top of that and brought about > even further improvements. > > Solaris 10 and above are not "slow". > > > Solaris derivatives like OI have their attractions. But speed isn't one > > of them. At least this is my experience, since you asked. Let the flame > > fest begin... > > > > I have asked if others have seen a slow Gnome desktop with OI, and if > they know the reasons for this. > > Ken, I use a 4500 rpm disk for belenix and illumos builds, and > everything works just fine for me. This has been the case since 2006. > > I run a very large setup at work, and I'm soon going to move over all > our source code systems (git, hg, svn) onto openindiana. > > Here are some numbers that I consistently get every month (I check > every month) for a specific disk intensive activity: > 5400 rpm disk - Windows XP - 38 minutes > 5400 rpm disk - Windows Server 2008 - 23 minutes > 5400 rpm disk - Windows 7 - 17 minutes > 5400 rpm disk - FC13 - 12 minutes > 7200 rpm disk - Windows 7 - 17 minutes > 7200 rpm disk - OSX - 8 minutes > 4500 rpm disk - openindiana/illumos/build_111a - 4.5 minutes > > Here's another set of numbers: > P4 2.2 Ghz with 2.72 TB RAIDZ and 8 GB RAM running Solaris 10 update 8 > used for serving iSCSI content off ZFS filesystems -> I have a > specific requirement where I've snapshotted a 600 GB ZFS filesystem > containing 9 VMs, and have then cloned this 20 times. This is for a > test setup. After the cloning and regular use, I see that an overall > diskspace of 800 GB has been used. > > I get no noticable performance difference at all. And this is with a > single Ethernet card. > > These are my numbers. > > Given the above, and my own work with Belenix, as well as zero Gnome > issues with OI, I've asked if anyone knows more. > > This was not asked to incite a flamefest, and I request that we don't > walk that path. > > > -- > > Regards-- Ken Gunderson > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > > > > > -- > Belenix: www.belenix.org > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
