I am excited about the new features of Solaris 10.  But it will be a 
long while before we role it out at work.  I would like to play with it 
at home, but only have an Ultra 10.  I was just wondering what the 
performance on an Ultra 10 is like, compared to solaris 8 and/or 9?  Is 
there a noticable difference for desktop use?  I mainly use the box for 
programming, so firing up an editor and possibly mozilla (though mozilla 
is unbearably slow on a U10.)

~S

I've tested b69 on an Ultra 10, 400Mhz, 1GB Ram. It seemed to use a bit
more memory than Solaris 8/9 (with most services disabled, it seemed to
be using around 128Mb, when in the JDS desktop with a few programs
running, I was using around 300Mb). Despite the memory usage,
performance was impressive. Things seemed a lot more snappy than on
Solaris 9 - and the SMC was actually usable! (Well, it started in
record time, but wouldn't properly work after that). Mozilla is 1.7
AFAIR, and I had no complaints about its speed. Although I would have
preferred Firefox...

shea martin <smartin@arcis.com> writes:

>I am excited about the new features of Solaris 10.  But it will be a 
>long while before we role it out at work.  I would like to play with it 
>at home, but only have an Ultra 10.  I was just wondering what the 
>performance on an Ultra 10 is like, compared to solaris 8 and/or 9?  Is 
>there a noticable difference for desktop use?  I mainly use the box for 
>programming, so firing up an editor and possibly mozilla (though mozilla 
>is unbearably slow on a U10.)

Mozilla is not that bad, as long as you have enough memory.

Solaris 10 is supposed to be faster than 8 or 9.

Casper

In article <C%fmd.227223$Pl.119297@pd7tw1no>,
	shea martin <smartin@arcis.com> writes:
> I am excited about the new features of Solaris 10.  But it will be a 
> long while before we role it out at work.  I would like to play with it 
> at home, but only have an Ultra 10.  I was just wondering what the 
> performance on an Ultra 10 is like, compared to solaris 8 and/or 9?  Is 
> there a noticable difference for desktop use?  I mainly use the box for 
> programming, so firing up an editor and possibly mozilla (though mozilla 
> is unbearably slow on a U10.)

Performance, on a like-for-like basis, is unlikely to be significantly
different. Depends which desktop you use in both cases. If you're tight
on memory and go from CDE to JDS then you're likely to see performance
nosedive, as JDS (and gnome generally - including the likes of mozilla)
is much more memory hungry than CDE ever was.

(And the disk requirement has gone up significantly as well.)
-- 
-Peter Tribble
MRC Rosalind Franklin Centre for Genomics Research
http://www.rfcgr.mrc.ac.uk/~ptribble/

Casper H.S. Dik <Casper.Dik@Sun.COM> writes:
>shea martin <smartin@arcis.com> writes:
>
>>I am excited about the new features of Solaris 10.  But it will be a 
>>long while before we role it out at work.  I would like to play with it 
>>at home, but only have an Ultra 10.  I was just wondering what the 
>>performance on an Ultra 10 is like, compared to solaris 8 and/or 9?  Is 
>>there a noticable difference for desktop use?  I mainly use the box for 
>>programming, so firing up an editor and possibly mozilla (though mozilla 
>>is unbearably slow on a U10.)
>
>Mozilla is not that bad, as long as you have enough memory.

Firefox is fine on my U10, once it has started up. That takes geological
ages...


-- 
       "The road to Paradise is through Intercourse."
        [email me at huge [at] huge [dot] org [dot] uk]

Peter C. Tribble wrote:
> In article <C%fmd.227223$Pl.119297@pd7tw1no>,
> 	shea martin <smartin@arcis.com> writes:
> 
>>I am excited about the new features of Solaris 10.  But it will be a 
>>long while before we role it out at work.  I would like to play with it 
>>at home, but only have an Ultra 10.  I was just wondering what the 
>>performance on an Ultra 10 is like, compared to solaris 8 and/or 9?  Is 
>>there a noticable difference for desktop use?  I mainly use the box for 
>>programming, so firing up an editor and possibly mozilla (though mozilla 
>>is unbearably slow on a U10.)
> 
> 
> Performance, on a like-for-like basis, is unlikely to be significantly
> different. Depends which desktop you use in both cases. If you're tight
> on memory and go from CDE to JDS then you're likely to see performance
> nosedive, as JDS (and gnome generally - including the likes of mozilla)
> is much more memory hungry than CDE ever was.
> 
> (And the disk requirement has gone up significantly as well.)
Is CDE still there?  I have always hated GNOME.
~S

In article <2vurteF2pbp5kU1@uni-berlin.de>,
	Shea Martin <smartin@arcis.com> writes:
> Peter C. Tribble wrote:
>> 
>> Performance, on a like-for-like basis, is unlikely to be significantly
>> different. Depends which desktop you use in both cases. If you're tight
>> on memory and go from CDE to JDS then you're likely to see performance
>> nosedive, as JDS (and gnome generally - including the likes of mozilla)
>> is much more memory hungry than CDE ever was.
>> 
>> (And the disk requirement has gone up significantly as well.)
>
> Is CDE still there?  I have always hated GNOME.

Oh yes, CDE is still there. I haven't seen any plans to scrap it yet.

-- 
-Peter Tribble
MRC Rosalind Franklin Centre for Genomics Research
http://www.rfcgr.mrc.ac.uk/~ptribble/

Shea Martin <smartin@arcis.com> writes:

> Peter C. Tribble wrote:
> > In article <C%fmd.227223$Pl.119297@pd7tw1no>,
> > 	shea martin <smartin@arcis.com> writes:
> >> mainly use the box for programming, so firing up an editor and
> >> possibly mozilla (though mozilla is unbearably slow on a U10.)
> > Performance, on a like-for-like basis, is unlikely to be
> > significantly
> > different. Depends which desktop you use in both cases. If you're tight
> > on memory and go from CDE to JDS then you're likely to see performance
> > nosedive, as JDS (and gnome generally - including the likes of mozilla)
> > is much more memory hungry than CDE ever was.
> > (And the disk requirement has gone up significantly as well.)
> Is CDE still there?  I have always hated GNOME.

Most all the other popular window managers work fine as well- I use
Windowmaker on all my solaris desktops.  Far less annoying than CDE
and much easier to deal with than Gnome- lots faster too.

Gregm

>>
>>Is CDE still there?  I have always hated GNOME.
> 
> 
> Most all the other popular window managers work fine as well- I use
> Windowmaker on all my solaris desktops.  Far less annoying than CDE
> and much easier to deal with than Gnome- lots faster too.
> 
> Gregm
> 
I used to use fluxbox, but when I upgraded about 6 months ago, the new 
beta was pretty sketch, so I started using CDE until a new release came 
out.  I actually got pretty used to CDE.  It is ugly, that whole 
dtaction/frontpanel/tooltalk thing is pretty hokey, but if you don't 
play with anything it is functional.

~S