Rob Giltrap wrote:
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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personally, I like IceWM, package from blastwave, easy configuration,
good enough integration.
looks much nicer than JDS on our rays.
(performance is good, but we're running from V490, sparc IV)
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