This might be a long shot but have you verified your network connections, such as duplex mismatches (e.g. the server is set to 100-Full but the switch port it is connected to is set to 100-Half)? -- Russ
> -----Original Message----- > From: Sam Kimery > Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 14:17 > > > I just tried it with xterm, and the results were much the > same: > 40% CPU utilization from Xsun and nearly 15% from > xterm. This just seems very excessive for scrolling text in a > small window. I don't see this type of CPU consumption on a > sparc system with a local frame buffer, so I'm confused as to > why the SunRay behaves this way. > > At this rate, 4 users with xterms scrolling large amounts of > text bring the server to its knees. Buying sufficient numbers > of SunRay servers to handle that kind of loading seems to > negate the financial benefits of SunRays. > > Is there specific tuning or configuration that needs be done > for Solaris 10? > > - Sam > > > > This has been observed before with gnome-terminal. That's > a terrible > > application, I recommend using xterm. > > > > Some work has been done to try to speed gnome-terminal up, > it should > > be better in future. > > > > -Bob > > > > Sam Kimery wrote: > > > >>I'm running a single SunRay which hangs off of a V240 > (Solaris 10, all > >>the latest patches as of yesterday) with SRSS 3.1. > >> > >>If I open a gnome-terminal and cat a very large ASCII file, the CPU > >>utilization of the Xsun server just to nearly 30%, and the CPU > >>utilization of the gnome-terminal jumps to between 15 and 20%. > >> > >>The same behavior can be replicated by doing anything that > generates > >>large amounts of terminal output (e.g. ls -l in a large directory). > >> > >>Is this normal behavior? It seems excessive to me. Looking > through the > >>list archives doesn't reveal other complaints, so I suspect > that the > >>problem is most likely pilot error during the installation or > >>configuration of SRSS (or perhaps Solaris 10). > >> > >>Any suggestions or comments? > >> > >>- Sam _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
