On 5/31/06, David J. Orman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On May 31, 2006, at 6:39 PM, Bart Smaalders wrote: > > Weird. You see this on all sorts of hardware including dual core > machines. What kind of hardware are you seeing this on now? Intel 945PSN motherboard Intel 805 Pentium D processor eVGA CO Nvidia 7900GT PCI-E Video card 2 gigs of pc(6200 i think - the stuff capable of 800mhz) ram (i know it's running at 667mhz) gateway 2185 21" widescreen lcd @ 1680x1050 Solaris U1 was installed on a 74gb raptor, attached to onboard SATA. I had to add a line to driver_aliases as the HCL suggests for the on- board ethernet (http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/sol/components/ details/1170.html) I installed the nvidia driver (the most recent version they released, since it's the only one that supports the 7900), and then patched the system completely. I know whenever I saw network activity, the machine started to sort of stutter (the mouse was stuttering across the screen, windows didn't move smoothly, etc...) Pretty much everything goes on/off pause very rapidly in little spurts. I think it might have occurred on disk access too. Cheers, David PS - If I need to reinstall to diagnose this, it can be done.
If you have time, we can give it a shot. I remember reading several threads (on various forums) concerning similar performance problem, mostly due to some interrupt/driver issue in the old bits, or simply a BIOS bug. P.S. I prefer the latest SXCR for non-production usage (improving performance, better/more tools etc.), especially as desktop. You probably have reasons to stick with Solaris+patches. Another suggestion: start a new thread if you're going to diagnose this, maybe even on another list. Tao _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
