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

[Chris]

On 2021-01-28 19:08, Hung Nguyen Gia wrote:
> 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.

Thanks!
I *really* appreciate your input. It gives me hope! :-)
> 
--Chris
> 
> 
> ---- 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
>  >
>  > --
>  > ~10yrs a FreeBSD maintainer of ~160 ports
>  > ~40yrs of UNIX
>  >

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~10yrs a FreeBSD maintainer of ~160 ports
~40yrs of UNIX