Re: Solaris impossible to use for desktop

From: Lars Tunkrans (sral.snarknut.mapson_at_bredband.net)
Date: 08/16/03 

Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 16:02:58 +0200

Ghazan Haider wrote:

>
> Ive now 128MB, but with quite small programs its the same with no hdd
> thrashing. This is solaris 9 with all the latest patches applied. 256
> megs have been ordered anyway, hope that makes a big difference.
>

   Which is you prime problem at the moment.

   On my SunBlade 100 running Solaris 9, Xsun , KDE 3.1.3
    and Mozilla 1.4 I am using some 400 MB RAM and
   150 MB swap space.

( From top )
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load averages: 1.20, 0.69, 0.40 15:50:47
73 processes: 70 sleeping, 2 running, 1 on cpu
CPU states: 0.0% idle, 24.7% user, 75.3% kernel, 0.0% iowait, 0.0% swap
Memory: 1024M real, 603M free, 154M swap in use, 4683M swap free
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For desktop use you should really have a machine with
512 MB RAM.

I Also have two IBM Deskstar GXP 60 GB 7200 rpm drives
These drives just costs $100 apice nowadays. 

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Lars Tunkrans
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