Thanks for help Moinak! I will send the info to you tonight when I sit with my KDE4 builds again.
-----Original Message----- From: Moinak.Ghosh at Sun.COM [mailto:moinak.gh...@sun.com] Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 10:28 AM To: manishchaks at gmail.com; Bangalore OpenSolaris User Group Subject: Re: [ug-bosug] SXDE : 2 serious reliability issues Manish Chakravarty wrote: > Hi BOSUG, > > I have been working almost 12 hours straight on my SXDE desktop. > I am using the default GNOME desktop to do KDE4 builds :) > > The machine has serious issues, and it has had an uptime of just 12 hours. > > 1) nwam/wireless reliablility > > nwam brings wpi0 ( my wireless interface ) down and up whenever it > wants to. I wanted to ssh into my laptop and work; laptops tend to > heat a lot when you're building stuff for some amount of time. > > Nwam unreliability issues make working remotely impossible, more than > one svn checkout broke :( > > 2) Desktop becomes very unresponsive > > I have a decent configuration ( 2 GB RAM, Intel Core 2 Duo T5450, 64 > bit Dual core ). > I have a 160 GB HDD with /export/home on ZFS ( with compression set on ) > > The way KDE4 builds itself is that > - Sun cc > - No parallel builds ( just one .c/.cpp file being compiled at one time) > - The entire build process runs in my home dir and deploys .pkgs to /opt > > After building each package ( each build takes around 15-30 mins), I > notice that > - After entering my password ( since the screen locks ) , it takes > 15-30 secs to draw the screen > - System slows down and is almost unusable ( Mind you, the build has > completed at this point) > - Logging in typically takes nwam down and up again ( automatically, > this is somehow linked to #1 ) > - I see that RAM usage is really really high (all of my 2GB ram and > ~140 megs of swap is used ) > > I know Solaris/OpenSolaris are known for their exceptional stability > and uptime. > But my SXDE is essentially unusuable for long development work :( > > Thus I guess I must doing something wrong > ( Or may not be doing something , like some patches/tweaks that I dont > know of ) Looks like something is hogging all your RAM and causing desktop applications to be swapped out. ZFS ARC cache can be the culprit but seems unlikely that ARC will grow too much beyond 1GB. Can you provide the following information: Execute prstat when the build is halfway through, take a screenshot and send it to me (not to the list :) ) After the build has completed, as root user execute echo "::memstat" | mdb -k and let me know the output. I had been using my home desktop for about 1yr to do huge amount of builds and ZFS would cause swapping trouble since I had only 1GB RAM earlier but it never caused problems. The system now runs like a rocket after I upgraded to 4GB faster RAM. I can play games with a build running in the background. I used to run heavy duty ON and BeleniX LiveCD builds longer back on the Acer Ferrari, 2GB RAM, sloooow harddisk without problems when I did not have a desktop. Regards, Moinak. > > Would greatly appreciate if someone can give me pointers on this. > > -- Manish > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > ug-bosug mailing list > List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org > List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org > List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 >
