On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Ritesh Sood <baralach...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
That's definitely wrong. I've got a slower (360MHz) Ultra 60 and gvim started up in about half a second. I mean, it's never going to be quick (especially for gnome/firefox/java and openoffice), but for normal tasks it should be fine. I would wonder about things like name resolution - getting name lookups and dns sub-optimal can lead to huge delays. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensolaris.org
