On 5/13/07, Eddy Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
You have to ignore the first line of vmstat. Do something like
"vmstat 5" & see from 2nd line onwards.
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.
The swap usage is reported in vmstat. The above shows how much space
you used in /tmp (which for Solaris defaults to tmpfs).
Try doing 'mpstat 5' when you start up another "heavy" application.
My system:
AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.67GHz)
512MB SD RAM
GeForce4 MX420 (64MB)
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