[OpenIndiana-discuss] GUI Performance - Update 3

2021-09-07 Thread russell
Hi, As an experiment I changed my passwd file to use /export/home/russell instead of /home/russell which utilised the auto_home to mount /home/russell after login as a different user. Logout and then login as myself and everything worked but was noticeably faster. Rebooted and time the delay f

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GUI performance - update 2

2021-09-06 Thread Till Wegmueller
Hi Russel True, I know that specific pain too well :) What would be interesting though just to rule it out before any investments, is to have a Measurement that is just of the Rpool. For testing create a home directory of a test user in the Rpool and benchmark that. If it is not that it could

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GUI performance - update 2

2021-09-06 Thread Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss
> On 6. Sep 2021, at 23:14, russell wrote: > > Hi > > Thank you for the all the advice and suggestions. > After overclocking the Memory and CPU from 3.7GHz to 4GHz I managed to reduce > the previous login by 20 seconds, so it now 1 minute 30 seconds. > > In an effort to discovery why the log

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GUI performance - update 2

2021-09-06 Thread russell
Hi Till Thanks for the feedback, much as I would like to move to a pure SSD pool finances do not permit this. However, I will plan for a third pool using SSDs just for myself. Regards Russell ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discus

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GUI performance - update 2

2021-09-06 Thread Till Wegmueller
Hi Russel If I interpret the output correctly some Sync and Wait times are average per Request. So you are seeing millisecond delays per request not in total. See for example this: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

[OpenIndiana-discuss] GUI performance - update 2

2021-09-06 Thread russell
Hi Thank you for the all the advice and suggestions. After overclocking the Memory and CPU from 3.7GHz to 4GHz I managed to reduce the previous login by 20 seconds, so it now 1 minute 30 seconds. In an effort to discovery why the logout time is so long I login in via ssh and ran both iostat 1

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GUI performance (updated)

2021-09-06 Thread Till Wegmueller
Hi Russel 7200RPM drives are Slow. And any Raid on top of that will not increase it a lot. What you can do is add SLOC and Cache SSD or move your rpool to dedicated SSDs. Most of the speed problem will be the Disk. Hope this helps -Till On 06.09.21 11:43, russell wrote: Hi Over the week

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GUI performance (updated)

2021-09-06 Thread s...@pandora.be
There exists a directory /var/log/lightdm with a lightdm.log file. Maybe it gives a clue as to what is happening ? Also : svcs -p lightdm shows Xorg is started by lightdm so /var/log/Xorg.0.log can perhaps also be checked to see if starting/stopping X is slow. So you could start by ti

[OpenIndiana-discuss] GUI performance (updated)

2021-09-06 Thread russell
Hi Over the weekend I tried overclocking the RAM on my computer which resulted in a 10 second reduction in login time. I tried overclocking the CPU from the stock 3.7GHz to 4.65GHz but the system kept locking up. I have a LSI MegaRAID SAS 2008 Raid Controller PCI-e card configured so it handle

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GUI performance

2021-09-05 Thread Tony Brian Albers
Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss wrote: > > >> On 4. Sep 2021, at 11:37, russell wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> I have been wondering about the time it takes the GUI Login screen to appear >> on boot my computer and after logout to return to the GUI Login screen. >> This morning I decided to time th

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GUI performance

2021-09-04 Thread Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss
> On 4. Sep 2021, at 11:37, russell wrote: > > Hi > > I have been wondering about the time it takes the GUI Login screen to appear > on boot my computer and after logout to return to the GUI Login screen. > This morning I decided to time this and the timings are pretty consistent. > > So fro

[OpenIndiana-discuss] GUI performance

2021-09-04 Thread russell
Hi I have been wondering about the time it takes the GUI Login screen to appear on boot my computer and after logout to return to the GUI Login screen. This morning I decided to time this and the timings are pretty consistent. So from boot timing the display of the text login: prompt, the scr