Nicolas Linkert wrote:
Nevada Build 65 performace vs. Debian 4.0 performace is abysmal. I don't know whether itr
has to do with the desktop (I think so, because core Solaris performance is fine), but
Vermillion performance really sucks. Comparing the Vermillion build on 65 with the Gnome
version Debian 4.0 uses, there is a trememdous difference in speed. What is
"speed"?
- boot up process is 30 seconds with Debian 4.0 / ~ 50 with Nevada
- applications feel much "snappier" with Debian 4.0
- nVidia support for Nevada seems to be really poor in Nevada - I cannot get 1680x1050
for NVIDIA Quadro FX 1100 - with Debian and nVidia it's no problem. So one is forced to
use the "nv" driver.
I think this is important, since Solaris starts with a fully loaded desktop. If
it booted into the console, I wouldn't really mind. But people experience
Solaris with that desktop and compare it to other operating systems. And - I am
afraid to say so - in this reagard Nevada Build 65 is slower than at least
Debian 4.0 (I didn't compare it to other operating systems/distributions).
Machine: Java Workstation W1100Z, 4 GB RAM, NVIDIA Quadro FX 1100, 500 GB hard
disk
Nevada build 65 had a nvidia driver bug that caused huge performance loss
on some AGP systems, such as the W1100z - (CR 6562225: "NVIDIA performance
on AGP systems can be terrible on b65") - this is fixed in Nevada build 66,
or by restoring a previous version of the nvidia driver packages and
rebooting.
(If you could see the bug on bugs.opensolaris.org, you'ld see that one
benchmark on a W2100z with Quadro NVS 280 dropped from 1200 FPS to 4!)
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-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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