From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 11 17:50:20 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: gnome@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2913016A420 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:50:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from centrmmtao06.cox.net (centrmmtao06.cox.net [70.168.83.78]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B56B43D75 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:50:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from mezz.mezzweb.com ([68.103.32.140]) by centrmmtao06.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20060111174750.VWHJ4002.centrmmtao06.cox.net@mezz.mezzweb.com>; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:47:50 -0500 Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 11:51:21 -0600 To: shildreth@allantgroup.com References: <1136994833.11930.62.camel@scotth.emsphone.com> From: "Jeremy Messenger" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1136994833.11930.62.camel@scotth.emsphone.com> User-Agent: Opera M2/8.51 (Linux, build 1462) Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users Subject: Re: What type of hardware are you using? X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:50:20 -0000 On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:53:53 -0600, Scott T. Hildreth 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 -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org