Right now at home I have 4 DTUs setup, where I'm likely to have no more than 2 in active use at any given time. I used to run them on SRS 2.1 with Solaris 9 on an E420R (3x450MHz, 1GB RAM) using the version of GNOME that Sun packaged with it. I've since upgraded to SRS 3.0 with Solaris 10 on an SB1000 (2x900MHz, 2GB RAM) using the version of GNOME (now called JDS) that Sun packaged with it.
What's really annoying is that the interactive user experience is now *slower*, despite the base hardware being nearly twice as fast. I directly blame JDS for this (always used to prefer KDE to GNOME on Solaris for performance anyways, but KDE is getting harder and harder to cleanly integrate newer versions of into Solaris). I also really hate how JDS insists on using fonts that look like crap unless anti-aliased (and the anti-aliasing is of low quality and generally has a performance hit on Sun Rays). (I'm also a KDE person in general whenever I have the option.) I also hate how JDS makes UI configuration an obscure PITA to figure out. So what desktop/wm are you all using? How do you get good interactive desktop performance? (yes, I've read the "put GNOME on Atkins" blog article, but am looking for a non-GNOME option) And on a totally different but partially related subject, does anyone know how to get the flash plugin to not run slowly while consuming all available CPU resources? I've seen this problem on pretty much anything that isn't a Windows PC, but it is usually far more pronouced on Solaris (even when locally using a workstation). -Derek _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
