I installed 2009.06 on my T43 back in July. The system has a single core pentium, 1.6 or 1.8GHz IIRC, and 1.5GB of RAM.
OpenSolaris is annoying slow on this thing. There is often a delay in everything I do, even typing this message. As I am writing this, the text occasionally pauses/lags behind my typing. ALT-TABing windows is slow, moving windows is slow. Maybe slow is the wrong way to describe it. Laggy is better. Watching the CPU metre, it often jumps to 100% when doing simple things. Something like opening my home folder via Places->Home Folder takes about 3-5 seconds. I am working on getting OpenSolaris on all my systems at home (in the process of building a Big Freakin ZFS File Server - BFZFS to replace my smaller Solaris 10 based file server), but I am leaning towards a *BSD or Linux distro for this laptop if OpenSolaris is going to be this laggy for me. Any tips on what might be going on, and how I might fix this guy up, are greatly appreciated. Maybe this is a job for dtrace. Even initiating key repeat has a lag. Hold down any key on my keyboard (a character key, or delete or backspace or directional keys) has a long lag before key repeat kicks in. The lag is not because it is configured that way. Thanks! Mark -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
