OpenSolaris doesn't seem to support the Intel 82Q35 chipset. This is translated into slow Xorg whose performance degrades with time and is not usable at all even doing a ls on a fullscreen gnome console terminal.
I notice that a huge amount of memory (>400Mb) is used by Xorg process and gnome (>100Mb per gnome app). Once I switched to vesa it all become more reasonable Xorg (90Mb). But sometimes with more GUI intensive apps the UI becomes slow.
Is there any alternatives to make it more responsive?