[Suns-at-Home] Solaris 10/JDS on U10/5

[Rick Peerlings]

Eric R. Pizzani wrote:
> Hey all,
> I was wondering what experiences people have had with Solaris 10 and  in 
> addition, Solaris 10 while running the Java Desktop System on the  Ultra 
> 10 (and Ultra 5 for that matter).

I have a Ultra 60 and Solaris 10 runs ok, but I do not use JDS, because 
it wants lots of memory and I have only 256MB, so I run CDE. When 
running JDS with a few applications opened, it swaps severely, so I got 
back to CDE.

> I've personally found it to be somewhat disappointing however, I read  
> somewhere that the Ultra 10 and 5 had 'crippled' IDE channels, and  was 
> wondering if anyone thought that this might have an effect on the  
> performance? Has anyone tried running it with SCSI drives and noticed  a 
> difference?
> 
> Thanks,
> Eric.
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