Hello everyone,

Yesterday I installed OpenSolaris for the first time, so excuse me that I'm not 
100% familiar with it. I have been using Linux and FreeBSD for a while now 
(perhaps 2 years).
After getting my network connection to work, I noticed that the performance of 
OpenSolaris was terrible on my machine. To give an example: Loading Firefox 
takes over 20 seconds the first time I start it. The same goes for a lot of 
other programs, even the terminal takes a  few seconds to start.

I also noticed that the RAM usage was excessive, the performance monitor 
reports 426MB of RAM, when using just Firefox and Gaim, and another 41MB in 
swap space.

Playing video etc does seem to work just fine, without any lagg; it really is 
just the starting up of processes.

I'll post some information about my system below:

bash-3.00$ vmstat
 kthr      memory            page            disk          faults      cpu
 r b w   swap  free  re  mf pi po fr de sr cd cd f0 s0   in   sy   cs us sy id
 0 0 0 648100 120724 63 306 188 22 42 0 107 26 0  1 31  540 2812  846 18  7 76

As you can see (you probably can't, because it's not a monospace font) the 
page/sr is 107, which should be "okay"

bash-3.00$ df -k /tmp
Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
swap                  593432     204  593228     1%    /tmp

used: 204 of course conflics with the performance monitor which reports 41MB.

My system:
AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.67GHz)
512MB SD RAM
GeForce4 MX420 (64MB)

Thanks in advance
 
 
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