Moinak Ghosh wrote: > Nicolas Linkert wrote: >> I've installed build 64a Solaris Express, and desktop operations on >> JDS are still very sluggish. It's slower than running Ubuntu 7.04 from >> CD ... Part of this seems to stem from UFS - with zfs I have >> experienced a considerable improvement in this regard. It's still not >> what one expects, but it's much better. >> >> I have no figures at all to prove this. This is all just a feeling of >> how the systems performs. Java Workstation, single 2,4 GB Opteron, 2 >> GB RAM, 500 GB hard disk (zfs boot/ufs boot) etc. >> > > What kinds of slowness ? For eg. Slow login/ Slow Firefox startup/ > Sluggish Menu response/ Anything else ? > Is anything hogging your CPU ?
The other thing to check is to run intrstat as root; I've seen some interesting problems w/ interrupt storms w/ some bioses.... - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts
