[ug-bosug] getting gui in opensolaris beta

2008-03-21 Thread Deependra Singh Shekhawat
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Ashwin Bhat ashwinbhatks at gmail.com wrote: Did you try the command startx ? The command startx says that : /usr/X11/bin/startx[129]: hexdump: not found [No such file or directory] Couldn't create cookie I tried both via jack user as well as root user.

[ug-bosug] SXDE : 2 serious reliability issues

2008-03-21 Thread S h i v
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Manish Chakravarty manishchaks at gmail.com wrote: snip I know Solaris/OpenSolaris are known for their exceptional stability and uptime. But my SXDE is essentially unusuable for long development work :( I suspect that this is more to do with JDS than

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2008-03-21 Thread Manish Chakravarty
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2008-03-21 Thread Manish Chakravarty
development tasks. I used JDS instead of KDE because I thought it would be tested rigorously. ( Since each SXDE release undergoes testing ) -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ug-bosug/attachments/20080321/24a927bf

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2008-03-21 Thread Moinak Ghosh
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

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2008-03-21 Thread Sanjeev Bagewadi
Manish, Manish Chakravarty wrote: This is problem in your case because, the zfs cache would have grown during the build. Now when you login the JDS binaries which sit on UFS need to be loaded and that needs to throw out what ZFS cached. This is right now is not very

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2008-03-21 Thread krazy lizard
Manish Chakravarty wrote: Hi Sanjeev, On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Sanjeev Bagewadi Sanjeev.Bagewadi at sun.com mailto:Sanjeev.Bagewadi at sun.com wrote: Manish, The slowness could be because ZFS cache has hogged up the memory. You can limit the cache size to 1GB by

[ug-bosug] SXDE : 2 serious reliability issues

2008-03-21 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Manish Chakravarty wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 9:33 AM, S h i v shivakumar.gn at gmail.com mailto:shivakumar.gn at gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Manish Chakravarty manishchaks at gmail.com mailto:manishchaks at gmail.com wrote: snip I know

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2008-03-21 Thread Moinak Ghosh
krazy lizard wrote: Manish Chakravarty wrote: Hi Sanjeev, [...] The NWAM dropping the line possibly means the signal seems to be dropping at times... I use it at home for days without any issue (infact I am punched in to office network for over a day). try

[ug-bosug] SXDE : 2 serious reliability issues

2008-03-21 Thread Manish Chakravarty
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:

[ug-bosug] SXDE : 2 serious reliability issues

2008-03-21 Thread Manish Chakravarty
Hi Sanjeev, The KDE + deps checkout has a lot of small files ( around 10,000+ .h , .cpp and .h files) In addition there around 1000 .png and .svgz bin files for the artwork/icons/etc. About nwam, I guess I will disable it. -Original Message- From: Sanjeev.Bagewadi at Sun.COM

[ug-bosug] SXDE : 2 serious reliability issues

2008-03-21 Thread Manish Chakravarty
Moinak Ghosh wrote: GNOME and KDE are both resource PIGs. Xfce is a lot better or you can use something like Icewm or Blackbox or ... Fluxbox? CDE? I guess the quickest thing to do would be to use CDE during builds JDS follows the GNOME community releases continuously and some GNOME

[ug-bosug] SXDE : 2 serious reliability issues

2008-03-21 Thread Sanjeev Bagewadi
Manish Manish Chakravarty wrote: Hi Sanjeev, The KDE + deps checkout has a lot of small files ( around 10,000+ .h , .cpp and .h files) In addition there around 1000 .png and .svgz bin files for the artwork/icons/etc. If the file sizes are small try disabling the compression. Have

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2008-03-21 Thread Manish Chakravarty
, Sanjeev. -- Manish Chakravarty http://manish-chaks.livejournal.com/ -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ug-bosug/attachments/20080321/3804d4e6/attachment.html

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2008-03-21 Thread Manish Chakravarty
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2008-03-21 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Manish Chakravarty wrote: Moinak Ghosh wrote: GNOME and KDE are both resource PIGs. Xfce is a lot better or you can use something like Icewm or Blackbox or ... Fluxbox? CDE? I guess the quickest thing to do would be to use CDE during builds Whatever you wish. I like

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2008-03-21 Thread Ananth Shrinivas
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 ) Dude, CPU: * Your compile / link operations are CPU intensive by themselves. * With

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2008-03-21 Thread Manish Chakravarty
Box result in even more overheads in the process? Cheers, Ananth -- Manish Chakravarty http://manish-chaks.livejournal.com/ -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ug-bosug/attachments/20080321/a8208cdf

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2008-03-21 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Ananth Shrinivas wrote: 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 ) [...] * Limit ARC size

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2008-03-21 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Manish Chakravarty wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Ananth Shrinivas Ananth.Shrinivas at sun.com mailto:Ananth.Shrinivas at sun.com wrote: 2) Desktop becomes very unresponsive I have a decent configuration ( 2 GB RAM, Intel Core 2 Duo T5450, 64 bit Dual core

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2008-03-21 Thread Ananth Shrinivas
For desktop usability * If you are running a dual core laptop, bind your compilation shell (and hence all its sub-processes) to a Single CPU. Make the other CPU free and usable for your desktop purposes. * Jail your build inside a whole root zone or a VirtualBox

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2008-03-21 Thread Manish Chakravarty
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2008-03-21 Thread S h i v
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Ananth Shrinivas Ananth.Shrinivas at sun.com wrote: Yes. The compilation might be slower, but this option was for desktop usability - Limiting the CPU shares available for compilation. You can't have your cake and eat it too ;-) If I have a cake, I would

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2008-03-21 Thread Ananth Shrinivas
Yes. The compilation might be slower, but this option was for desktop usability - Limiting the CPU shares available for compilation. You can't have your cake and eat it too ;-) If I have a cake, I would like to eat it :) And in this context, zones along with resource controls is

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2008-03-21 Thread Manish Chakravarty
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