The "slowness" you're encountering is probably a bug related to ZFS and Firefox (Probably other applications too) They say it's fixed in B101. I'm using B100 on my MacBook Pro (Natively) and suspend/resume works (Won't wake from key/mouse, but will from button) as does CPU throttling according to 'kstat cpu_info' (800 million hertz) and it doesn't seem slow, though it's probably not as fast as it could be, but keep in mind there is no release (yet) and it IS the development platform, so debugging stuff may still be in there (in some places) giving a chunky feel to everything. The installation is a bit slow considering the amount of data copied, but once they get it right, most users shouldn't be too concerned, granted it can be done in about 40m or less, and 15m via a network image.
What I found slow so far (I've been tracking opensolaris development for years) with B100a is mainly related to Firefox, and mainly the Flash plugin (Adobe still languishing on v10 for Solaris) but also some file copy operations (Mainly with tiny files) but not really different for me than Ubuntu in terms of GNOME's performance. The issues I find are mainly visual glitches (Non-critical, a dialog here, and there, sometimes wifi acts up needs to be reset) and non-inclusion of yukonx driver (with pci11ab,436a id) and ath driver (with pci168c,24 id) Then the codec availability issue, Fluendo is still not coming through, leaving us with dirt in our mouths. But for what it is, I am quite happy so far, just wish that the developers wouldn't alienate their AMD system owners because of C/P state TSC issues which are an architectural fault of their own. http://opensolaris.org/os/community/performance/technical_docs/amd_tsc_power basically only Intel can step down clock (Unless you can somehow cram a Barcelona into your laptop or budget) We're cutting our energy costs in half by using solar and wind, and in addition are trying to be more efficient with our electronics (Turn them off, or enable speedstep/powernow while on). Since my Ultra 20 M2 cannot support CPU throttling, it doesn't run much anymore, it draws 20 amps, costing $80 USD or more a month ($0.149/kwh; 1/3 higher than national average) here. The goal is to eventually get most of our stuff compliant, and it may be possible (If finances permit, which so far is not a good situation) to replace units that are incapable, but the Sun was bought Sept 11, 2008 and is new for what it's used for. I just can't believe how inefficient Sun is. James On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 12:18 +0100, Kristian Rink wrote: > Folks; > > being aware that this eventually is a rather "fuzzy" question: Are there > good pointers on how to tweak OpenSolaris' performance being a desktop OS? > On my hardware, in many respects it seems a little to considerably slower > than an up-to-date Ubuntu desktop, yet I am unsure where to lay my hands to > get a little more off the system here, like disabling un-needed services > (which?), ... > > Any hints of whichever kind much appreciated. :) > Cheers, > Kristian >
