700M is the min requisite for OpenSolaris LiveCD

印度纳与Milax在低内存环境的表现

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本文探讨了印度纳（OpenSolaris 2008.05）在RAM不足700MB时的性能问题，尤其是在使用GNOME桌面环境及ZFS文件系统时。针对这一挑战，推荐使用Milax——一个轻量级的OpenSolaris发行版，它采用XFCE图形界面，并提供文本模式启动选项。

In my experience, Indiana doesn't work well if you have less than 700 megabytes of RAM because the all the features in the GNOME desktop use a lot of RAM and the ZFS checksumming, snapshot and rewind features uses a bit of RAM as well. Instead of using Indiana (a.k.a. "OpenSolaris 2008.05") try this out:

http://www.milax.org/

Milax is a minimized OpenSolaris distro with an XFCE graphical user interface (basically the Solaris equivalent of D amn Small Linux) and it can give you a text only boot up and there is a script that you can run to install it on a USB flash drive.

Give it a spin and tell us how it goes.

When you boot up the Indiana 2008.05 OpenSolaris live CD, it boots up really fast for me (way faster than my KDE Ubuntu live CD) and the reason it does this is because it loads all 700 megabytes of the CD into RAM. If you have less than 700megabytes of RAM then the live CD will try to swap and thrash like crazy while the OS is trying to boot up.

This is why you need to use Milax instead of Indiana on that kind of old hardware with no RAM. Keep in mind that the reason ZFS is so much faster than NTFS and hardware RAID cards is because ZFS uses up quite a bit of RAM. ZFS basically gives you speed and end-to-end data integrity (every block of data is checksummed several times) at the price of using up more RAM than say an ext3 file system or UFS filesystem (which has no error self correction, self-healing or checksumming) uses.