Re: [SunRay-Users] Performance tanks after upgrading to 1GB switch, had 100MB

2012-09-30 Thread Carsten John
-Original message- To: sunray-users@filibeto.org; From: Kevin J Kelly kevinjmke...@verizon.net Sent: Thu 27-09-2012 02:43 Subject:[SunRay-Users] Performance tanks after upgrading to 1GB switch, had 100MB blocks of lines across the screen when I play local video files. I

Re: [SunRay-Users] Performance tanks after upgrading to 1GB switch, had 100MB

2012-09-27 Thread Cj Cant
To follow up on this, I suffered the same problem myself. I found that disabling flow control on the ports on the switch improved performance dramatically Hope this is useful Cheers Cj On 27 Sep 2012, at 04:10, Craig Bender craig.ben...@oracle.com wrote: Very few (enterprise) switches

Re: [SunRay-Users] Performance tanks after upgrading to 1GB switch, had 100MB

2012-09-27 Thread Karl Rossing
On 09/26/2012 08:30 PM, Craig Bender wrote: Try adding set hires_tick = 1 to /etc/system and reboot I thought this is only for solaris Karl CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This communication (including all attachments) is confidential and is intended for the use of the named addressee(s) only

Re: [SunRay-Users] Performance tanks after upgrading to 1GB switch, had 100MB

2012-09-27 Thread Craig Bender
Hi folks, I was (rightfully) questioned about using the term lower rate, I'll attempt to clarify as that's incorrect. What the hires_tick setting does is reduce the interval of when data is sent. Same amount of data, just sent in smaller chunks, over a smaller amount of time. While the

Re: [SunRay-Users] Performance tanks after upgrading to 1GB switch, had 100MB

2012-09-27 Thread Craig Bender
And that's where I missed the mention of Ubuntu. Sorry. You can check what it's running at by do: cat /boot/config-kernel | grep HZ Where kernel is the version you are running Examples: Ubuntu Jaunty $cat /boot/config-2.6.28-11-generic | grep CONFIG_HZ # CONFIG_HZ_1000 is not set #

Re: [SunRay-Users] Performance tanks after upgrading to 1GB switch, had 100MB

2012-09-27 Thread Dave Price
Dear Craig and All, We here at Aberystwyth have too suffered fairly bad sunray performance for a long time. [By the way, in the end I abandoned using Sunray with Solaris 11 as while I got it working, there were lots of niggling problems and time ran out...] I have the hires_tick set. I have

Re: [SunRay-Users] Performance tanks after upgrading to 1GB switch, had 100MB

2012-09-27 Thread Matthew Arensberg Wieben
-Original Message- From: sunray-users-boun...@filibeto.org [mailto:sunray-users-boun...@filibeto.org] On Behalf Of Dave Price Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 11:11 AM To: SunRay-Users mailing list Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] Performance tanks after upgrading to 1GB switch, had 100MB

Re: [SunRay-Users] Performance tanks after upgrading to 1GB switch, had 100MB

2012-09-27 Thread Stier, Matthew
PM To: SunRay-Users mailing list Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] Performance tanks after upgrading to 1GB switch, had 100MB We use Cisco Catalyst 2970 switches for the servers...though in the client areas, 2960's and 2970's are used, too. There was a point in time where performance on the 2970's

[SunRay-Users] Performance tanks after upgrading to 1GB switch, had 100MB

2012-09-26 Thread Kevin J Kelly
blocks of lines across the screen when I play local video files. I am running Ubuntu 11.04 with Sun Ray Software 5.2 bundle Firmware version=4.3_146928-01_2011.06.03.14.41, revision=2 Sunray server connection is 1GB, Sun Ray 2's primarily Essentially I had a unmanaged 100MB Netgear switch worked

Re: [SunRay-Users] Performance tanks after upgrading to 1GB switch, had 100MB

2012-09-26 Thread David Bullock
Hi Kevin, Most likely thing is that the new switch is not successfully negotiating full-duplex on the ethernet link. It really kills throughput and ... potentially leads to collisions (which gets you packet loss). You should force both ends of the relevant links to full-duplex. *David Bullock

Re: [SunRay-Users] Performance tanks after upgrading to 1GB switch, had 100MB

2012-09-26 Thread Craig Bender
Try adding set hires_tick = 1 to /etc/system and reboot On 9/26/12 6:14 PM, David Bullock wrote: Hi Kevin, Most likely thing is that the new switch is not successfully negotiating full-duplex on the ethernet link. It really kills throughput and ... potentially leads to collisions (which

Re: [SunRay-Users] Performance tanks after upgrading to 1GB switch, had 100MB

2012-09-26 Thread David Bullock
On 27 September 2012 11:30, Craig Bender craig.ben...@oracle.com wrote: Try adding set hires_tick = 1 to /etc/system and reboot Hi Craig, you seem to be referring to lore written up in section 18.11.4.1 of http://docs.oracle.com/html/E22661_15/Troubleshooting-Performance.htmlwhere it