What type of hardware are you using?
Jeremy Messenger
mezz7 at cox.net
Wed Jan 11 09:50:20 PST 2006
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:53:53 -0600, Scott T. Hildreth
<shildreth at allantgroup.com> wrote:
> At home, my machine is a 1 GHZ, with 768 mb of memory. I use xfce4,
> evolution, firefox, gnome-office, ...etc. It seems that with every
> upgrade, the 1GHZ cpu is not enough power anymore. I use evolution
> at work, but I am trying Thunderbird at home now. The new evolution
> is too slow on my home server. Thunderbird is better (less cpu
> intensive), but not snappy by any means. Plus I miss some of the
> features of Evolution, but this is straying from my question. Has
> anyone else noticed this issue or is everyone else running on faster
> processors?
What's version of FreeBSD are you using? There are several ways to make
your FreeBSD desktop feel faster/smoother by using FreeBSD 6.x or 7.x with
ULE, using either libpthread/libthr, using ccache, tweak kern.ipc.shmmax
and kern.ipc.shmall (see below), disable debug in kernel and malloc.conf,
follow tuning(7) and others that I have forgotten.
/etc/sysctl.conf:
=====================
kern.ipc.shmmax=67108864
kern.ipc.shmall=32768
=====================
The Mozilla products and OpenOffice.org are always known to be slow on
low-end machine and use a lot of ram. I never have use or follow up with
Evolution, so can't really make any comment on it. GNOME team are working
very hard to make GNOME 2.13/2.14 go faster and use less memory, which is
what part I am looking forward for. However, try to replace from
heavy-weight apps to light-weight apps. Like I am using Opera
(linux-opera) instead Firefox/Mozilla/Thunderbird/Evolution, TextMaker
(shareware) instead OpenOffice/AbiWord and etc.
Isn't it kind of shame that Linux/BSD/UNIX desktop need faster machine and
more ram than Win98/Win2k/WinXP in these day? :-/ Before anyone make any
comment on use Fluxbox, Xfce or so, look at the features what
Win98/Win2k/WinXP can do compare to these light-weight WM.
Anyway, as for hardware, I have:
AthlonXP 3200+ Barton
512mb RAM
GeForce4 Ti4200 dualhead 128mb (AGP8X)
160gb HDD (8 cache)
100% apps in here have been compiled with debug and I don't notice any
slowdown or whatever even in video and game too. Running in GNOME 2.12.x.
Cheers,
Mezz
> Thanks,
> STH
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