[OpenIndiana-discuss] What's HASWELL support like on OI?

[Hung Nguyen Gia]

This is my CPU:

CPU:       Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-4460 bits: 64 type: MCP L2 cache: 6144 KiB

It has reasonable good performance with OI.

Graphic performance is also good. Possible to watch 4K on Palemoon and 1080p on Firefox.

The key point to good performance on OI is not CPU but RAM.

8G of RAM and a tweaked ZFS ARC Cache Size Max on /etc/system worked for me.

Everything is very fast and responsive. Until you touch operations with a spawning a lot of process like pkgsrc it will show you the truly identity of it is, Slowlaris.

I suggest add more RAM. Maybe 16G at least. But I think 32G is good.

Good luck at your effort.




---- On Fri, 29 Jan 2021 08:35:38 +0700 Chris <oidev at bsdos.info> wrote ----

 > I'm trying to find some combination of hardware that will 
 > produce reasonable performance at the console. My last efforts 
 > were in vain. I just ordered a motherboard that has intel 
 > Haswell graphics support. The board also provides a pcie 
 > x16 slot. Where I could put most any video card. My first 
 > attempt with Intel video was a disappointment. So I tried 
 > Nvidia. Which was also a disappointment. So I'm just 
 > looking for something that doesn't take ~25 seconds to 
 > return a full directory listing. But nothing created 
 > in the within the last 5-7yrs that I have seems to fly. 
 > Maybe I should be using a STBD, or RIVA TNT card? ;-) 
 >  
 > Thanks for your input! :-) 
 >  
 > --Chris 
 >  
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 > ~40yrs of UNIX 
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