2007/7/5, Fabrizio Listello <flistello at gmail.com>: > The problems I've are mainly related to the filesystem usage and the CPU fan. > The CPU fan are used much more than under linux (on same laptop) and > this can be indicative of excessive CPU usage or bad CPU stepping > technology support from the kernel. Anyway this is mainly annoying > than creating real problem (as long as you have a desk to put you > laptop on and not using your lap).
Sun has cooperated with Intel now. Sun promised to sell more x86-based servers and Intel promised to help Sun to tunning Solaris on x86 chips. //err... Do I catch the key of this cooperation? > The fs usage is much more serious (from a user-perspective): when I've > a lot of disk activity the system becomes very very slow and > un-responsive. This happens either you read or write and either ZFS or > UFS. Write on UFS is the worst case. Yes, the problem is clear when using gedit. Because the gedit will shows "......" in the bottom for a long time when saving a file, even if it is a relative small file. I don't know what's the time cost when using gedit in Debian/Fedora/OpenSuse. Because it never catches my attention when I using it. > > I've no data to show but we can try a way to find evidences and run some > tests. > > On 6/18/07, Michael Hunter <Michael.Hunter at sun.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:42:28 +0200 > > Fabrizio Listello <flistello at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi! > > > There is someone here that has good hints on how to tune > > > solaris/nevada to run smoothly on laptop? > > > The solaris kernel is able to run in a wide range of system, so I > > > think that it's possible to make some adjustment in order to act more > > > responsively for a desktop usage. > > > > The system should tune itself so to speak. If you have something that > > is not as responsive as you think it should be _Solaris Performance and > > Tools_ is a good guidebook on trying to figure out whats going on. > > There isn't a specific section about the GUI which is probably a > > concern for "desktop usage" but I think the tools it gives you should > > allow you to figure out where you issues are. > > > > mph > > > > > -- > > FList > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org >
