From: Steve Graegert <itcsi@technologies.de> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 19:26:35 +0200 Message-Id: <01092419263502.00966@xp2> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Performance on a Sparc 2 machine
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On Tuesday 25 September 2001 08:56, Muthu Nedumaran wrote:
> Friends,
...
> I just installed SuSE Linux 7.1 into my old SPARC 2 (Sun 4/75) that has
> 64MB Ram. Everything works fine except for the speed - when I run KDE 2 it
> crawls. I tried mwm just to check, it was fine - desktop performance
> (response to mouse clicks, moving Windows, starting apps, pulling down
> menus) was as good as the last os I ran in this machine (Solaris 2.6).
I was testing performance on a SPARC 2 also (same machine) and it was
horribly slow, even with old Red Hat 6.0. Running GNOME ore KDE is no fun on
this box. My SPARC 5 does an acceptable job with icewm, but KDE and Gnome are
also problematic. If you don't need X these machines might work fine as
terminals or gateways.
I know that Solaris 2.6 is running quite well, but don't bother installing
version 7 or 8, speed will go down significantly. Linux is noticably faster.
Hope this helps.
If you still have some questions, just let me know.
Bye,
Steve.
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