On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Moinak Ghosh <Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com> wrote:
> 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 > > (http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Evil_Tuning_Guide) > > > > This should not be needed on a 2GB system. ZFS ARC will eat till 1GB > and > leave the other gig alone. > > > 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 instance and > > apply Solaris resource controls to it. > > > > Yup. A KDE build zone. Hey maybe this can be one topic of the next > BOSUG > meet. Manish can get his laptop and we can set up this zone with > appropriate > resource controls. This would be fantastic. A build zone which does not hog all the resources of the machine Thanks for helping me out! Regards Manish -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ug-bosug/attachments/20080321/d7c8d0cb/attachment.html>
