> > > > What kinds of slowness ? For eg. Slow login/ > > Slow > > > > Firefox startup/ > > > > luggish Menu response/ Anything else ? > > > > Is anything hogging your CPU ? > > > > Have you tried the following tweaks: > > > > svcadm disable basicreg > > > > pkgrm SUNWupdatemgru > > > > pkgrm SUNWbrg > > > > gards, > > > > Moinak. > > > > > > These tweaks most definitely help :-) > > > > Altho ... I have just installed Debian Etch on my > > Java Workstation - and it is - I really hate to > say > > this - _much_ faster on desktop operations than > the > > current implementation of Vermillion on Solaris > > Express (build 65). Programs (Firefox, OpenOffice > > etc.) as well as the desktop itself (Nautilus!) > are > > just so much snappier on Debian - ok, Nevada is > still > > under heavy development, but still ... > > You've also got a debug kernel I think, which may be > _slightly_ slower > than a production kernel.
Are you sure? I thought Solaris Express comes with a non-Debug kernel? > And unless you have a comparable accelerated video > driver for both OSs, > it's not going to be a meaningful comparison anyway. It's actually the nv driver for both systems ... This message posted from opensolaris.org
