Derek Konigsberg wrote:
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)
Gnome is currently a resource hog especially compared with CDE but then
again KDE isn't much better.
What is pleasing is that with Gnome 2.14 there is quite a bit of work
going on to improve the performance and resource requirements. The
OpenSolaris guys are throwing DTrace at the problem which is showing up
some decent early wins. Personally I'm happy to stay with Gnome but are
relieved that it should be a little more 'tuned' in the future.
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