Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 11:51:21 -0600 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: shildreth@allantgroup.com Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What type of hardware are you using? Message-ID: <op.s276jvnu9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> In-Reply-To: <1136994833.11930.62.camel@scotth.emsphone.com> References: <1136994833.11930.62.camel@scotth.emsphone.com>
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On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:53:53 -0600, Scott T. Hildreth <shildreth@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 -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org
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