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
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