From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 11 18:16:59 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 C8F6316A41F for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 18:16:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from shildreth@allantgroup.com) Received: from scotth.emsphone.com (scotth.emsphone.com [199.67.51.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F1F043D45 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 18:16:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from shildreth@allantgroup.com) Received: from scotth.emsphone.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by scotth.emsphone.com (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k0BIGmvg054438; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:16:48 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from shildreth@allantgroup.com) Received: (from shildret@localhost) by scotth.emsphone.com (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id k0BIGmK5054437; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:16:48 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from shildreth@allantgroup.com) X-Authentication-Warning: scotth.emsphone.com: shildret set sender to shildreth@allantgroup.com using -f From: "Scott T. Hildreth" To: Jeremy Messenger In-Reply-To: References: <1136994833.11930.62.camel@scotth.emsphone.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:16:48 -0600 Message-Id: <1137003408.11930.78.camel@scotth.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port 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 Reply-To: shildreth@allantgroup.com 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 18:17:00 -0000 On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 11:51 -0600, Jeremy Messenger wrote: > 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 I just upgraded to 6.0. > 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 I'm pretty sure I commented out the kernel debugging. > and malloc.conf, > follow tuning(7) and others that I have forgotten. > I will check out the tuning manpage. > /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 was going to upgrade the ram, but I haven't seen the swap being heavily used or filled. It seems to be more in the CPU. > 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. > I really haven't noticed too much slowness with Firefox. > 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) > http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1644629&Sku=MBM-P4M800-340 I was thinking of buying this board and processor, but I read a review that stated the Celeron D 's still run pretty hot. > 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. I get temporary X freezes, (EE) R128(0): R128CCEWaitForIdle: (DEBUG) CCE idle took i = 1025 (EE) R128(0): Idle timed out, resetting engine... ...I saw someone else was having this problem, I hope it is fixed with the new Xorg release. > > Cheers, > Mezz > > > Thanks, > > STH > > -- Scott T. Hildreth