John Hoogerdijk wrote: > This is also a sun ray environment. Using Solaris 10/ CDE, over 100 users is > no issue. Same HW - Opensolaris/Gnome at 100 active users it slows > considerably. > GNOME certainly has bigger memory foot print than CDE. GUI in CDE is motif based and GNOME is GTK+, the later is significantly more features rich. Of course GNOME is also have other layers of libraries that make it requires more memory resources and so is CPU resources. There are many more applications in GNOME than CDE too that can contribute to the resource usage.
In the ITOPS environment within Sun, GNOME (a.k.a JDS) is the desktop for all. One can't really get CDE anymore. I think the sizing of system can't be the same for CDE as in GNOME. The question is can the difference be made minimum. > would the dbus daemon be a potential issue? > Why do you think dbus daemon is a specific issue? -Ghee
