Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] About the Gnome "slowdowns"

2011-06-22 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
On Jun 22, 2011, at 4:16 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > On 06/22/11 08:43 AM, Sriram Narayanan wrote: >> "Slowlaris" was a term used only for the TCP/IP stack of Solaris 9. > > "Slowlaris" originally came out of the performance difference between > SunOS 4.x and Solaris 2.0, a decade before Solar

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] About the Gnome "slowdowns"

2011-06-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 06/22/11 08:43 AM, Sriram Narayanan wrote: > "Slowlaris" was a term used only for the TCP/IP stack of Solaris 9. "Slowlaris" originally came out of the performance difference between SunOS 4.x and Solaris 2.0, a decade before Solaris 9. Later Solaris releases improved things greatly - 2.3 or

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] About the Gnome "slowdowns"

2011-06-22 Thread Jerry Kemp
I mostly recall seeing that statement around the transition period from SunOS 4.x (later called Solaris 1.x) to SunOS 5.x (Solaris 2.x). This was where Sun transitioned from a BSD style Unix to the AT&T Sys V style Unix. Also, admins were accustomed to the BSD userland, and not happy about the ot

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] About the Gnome "slowdowns"

2011-06-22 Thread Gregory Youngblood
Hate replying to myself, but this typo got by me and needed correction... On Jun 22, 2011, at 9:41 AM, Gregory Youngblood wrote: > As for speed "feel", put a mostly idle linux system next to a mostly idle > solaris system and linux will "feel" faster interactively. Load the two > systems down

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] About the Gnome "slowdowns"

2011-06-22 Thread Gregory Youngblood
On Jun 22, 2011, at 8:43 AM, Sriram Narayanan wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Ken Gunderson 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 de

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] About the Gnome "slowdowns"

2011-06-22 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 17:16 +0100, Colin Ellis wrote: > 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. Ditto. > -My la

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] About the Gnome "slowdowns"

2011-06-22 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Ken Gunderson wrote: > On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 21:13 +0530, Sriram Narayanan wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Ken Gunderson wrote: >> > On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 19:24 +0530, Sriram Narayanan wrote: >> >> Hi everyone: >> >> >> >> I've been using openindiana a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] About the Gnome "slowdowns"

2011-06-22 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 21:13 +0530, Sriram Narayanan wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Ken Gunderson 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 r

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] About the Gnome "slowdowns"

2011-06-22 Thread Colin Ellis
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 ca

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] About the Gnome "slowdowns"

2011-06-22 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Ken Gunderson 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 si

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] About the Gnome "slowdowns"

2011-06-22 Thread Ken Gunderson
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 1

[OpenIndiana-discuss] About the Gnome "slowdowns"

2011-06-22 Thread Sriram Narayanan
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 calcu