Hi all, First off, I'm running Solaris 10 (release 10/2008) so strictly speaking, i should not be posting here. But Sun's website is so daunting that i wouldn't to where and how to post. I have Sun Ultra 60 that I purchased on eBay about two years ago. Reason being a bit of nostalgia -- the first computers that i worked on back when i an undergrad about 10 years ago were Sun, running good old CDE -- and also because these are such well crafted machines, a collector's item. My U60's config is pretty top notch in it's family: Dual 450 MHz UltraSparc II (sun4u platform) and 2GB RAM. It came with a 36 GB 10K RPM U160 SCSI hard drive, to which I've added another identical HD.
Thing is, the machine's response is [i]very[/i] slow. For instance, it takes over a minute between typing gvim and the window to appear. SMC consistently takes 4-5 minutes to come up. Things like smpatch take an eternity to run. Of course, I don't expect the response to be anywhere close to the desktops that we're used to these days. Rather my reference is the Pentium-3 machine with 64 GB RAM that I used to own when i was an undergrad. I used to run Matlab, latex, etc. on that machine, and it didn't feel like that the Sun machines at the university were any slower. That leads me to believe that there's some issue with my U60, and i hope that there is, as against the scenario that those machines are inherently so slow as to be unusable today. I've run iostat, mpstat, etc. but can't really find a bottleneck (if there is one). Is there a performance suite that i could run, and compare my U60's numbers with that of a [i]control[/i] Ultra 60. Maybe there is a bottleneck in my machine, or maybe there isn't, and it's only my perception and expectations are flawed. Thanks for taking the time to read my post... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensolaris.org
