Justin Conover wrote:
Hello,
I'm pretty much new to all this so not sure if this is the right place or not,
but here goes:
Every install I've done of either Solaris Express or SXCR xx my box is just
chunky feeling, very slow.
Examples:
I pretty much am always playing mp3's and web surfing at the same time, as I do
other stuff.
Web stuff is either done in mozilla or firefox from Vermillion(JDS) builds.
MP3 either xmms(Blastwave) or Rythmbox(Vermillion)
Pulling up web pages can just be terrible slow and stutter about.
Some times music skipps about or just stops playing for seconds at a time.
Keep in mind I can be doing other stuff too.
Like I've been playing around with pkgsrc building bits of software with either
gcc/studio11 so whilst compiling, things get worst. Now I understand the
concept of workload and all, but.....
Please don't take this as some flaimbait/war because I'm not intending this to
come off like that. Cause I really like Solaris and think it is one of the
best OS's out there, (just has a lot of cool stuff) :)
That being said, when I have Linux/*BSD on here there is none of this sluggish
feeling, and when I run Linux/*BSD I use the beta's of those like
Rawhide(fedora)/ Current (FreeBSD) so I know they have debuging on and that, I
don't think it can just simply be running DEBUG on solaris at the momment.
I am currently on
uname -v
brandz-builds_2006-03-15
$ dmesg | grep -i debug
Apr 19 23:13:39 echelon genunix: [ID 145129 kern.notice] DEBUG enabled
If you're looking for performance,
running debug bits is going to suck (technical term :-)).
One of the problems with debug bits is that they tend to place
much heavier demands on memory due to extensive kmem logging
and debug buffers.
I'm running a similar system at home, albeit w/ a more powerful CPU.
The only sluggishness I have is when the kids start pounding my
ZFS file store via samba to get at their music/anime/whatever;
I need to get off of build 33 to get to a version of ZFS that doesn't
hog all the RAM quite so aggressively.
What does intrstat report in terms of interrupts? We've seen some
issues with some bioses confusing edge triggered vs level triggered
interrupts.
- Bart
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Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance
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