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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


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