Hi Sanjeev,
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Sanjeev Bagewadi <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 setting the value of zfs_arc_max. > I don't remember the exact variable. > > Search for "limiting zfs arc" on the zfs-discuss alias and you should be > able to get the details. Thanks a lot! I will do this. > > 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 smooth and hence you could be seeing the sluggishness.... Should I just use UFS for the entire hard disk for the time being? I know ZFS root post-install is possible. It seemed a little tricky for me. > > > 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). My office laptop ( which is an HP plugged into the same wireless network at my home, runs XP ) did not disconnect the entire night. My personal laptop ( which runs SXDE ) had around 50+ disconnections over a period of 12 hours. And Ubuntu, which runs on the same laptop on the same wireless network, never disconnects as well. It could either be - the driver wpi0 - flaky nwam ( which i think is the culprit ) > > Cheers, > Sanjeev. > > > 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 wireless interface ) down and up whenever it > > wants to. I wanted to ssh into my laptop and work; laptops tend to > > heat a lot when you're building stuff for some amount of time. > > > > Nwam unreliability issues make working remotely impossible, more than > > one svn checkout broke :( > > > > 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 ) > > > > The way KDE4 builds itself is that > > - Sun cc > > - No parallel builds ( just one .c/.cpp file being compiled at one > time) > > - The entire build process runs in my home dir and deploys .pkgs to /opt > > > > After building each package ( each build takes around 15-30 mins), I > > notice that > > - After entering my password ( since the screen locks ) , it takes > > 15-30 secs to draw the screen > > - System slows down and is almost unusable ( Mind you, the build has > > completed at this point) > > - Logging in typically takes nwam down and up again ( automatically, > > this is somehow linked to #1 ) > > - I see that RAM usage is really really high (all of my 2GB ram and > > ~140 megs of swap is used ) > > > > I know Solaris/OpenSolaris are known for their exceptional stability > > and uptime. > > But my SXDE is essentially unusuable for long development work :( > > > > Thus I guess I must doing something wrong > > ( Or may not be doing something , like some patches/tweaks that I dont > > know of ) > > > > Would greatly appreciate if someone can give me pointers on this. > > > > -- Manish > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ug-bosug mailing list > > List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org > > List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org > > List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 > > > > -- Manish Chakravarty http://manish-chaks.livejournal.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ug-bosug/attachments/20080321/4ec9230e/attachment.html>
