On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 02:17:46PM -0400, Bob Doolittle wrote:
> Gary Mills wrote:
> >On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 12:35:07PM -0400, Bob Doolittle wrote:
> >  
> >>When you're talking about timeouts "when logging in or logging out",
> >>do you mean to Windows, or Solaris?
> >>
> >>There shouldn't be any activities common to both that would affect
> >>both that I can think of.
> >
> >Neither.  The timeouts are on my Sun Ray terminal.  The screen goes
> >white with a floating icon.  I have to control-moon it and unlock the
> >screen to get my desktop session back.  It's clearly a NAT router issue.
> 
> I understand that part :-).
> 
> First you said:
> >I get
> >a timeout when logging in or logging out, but not when connecting or
> >disconnecting with my smart card.
> 
> I originally assumed your timeout was occurring during Solaris (or Linux?)
> login/logout.
> 
> Then you said:
> >I used the Sun Windows connector to log into our
> >Windows terminal server at the office.  Just as I got a glimse of the
> >Windows window and heard the Microsoft arpeggio, I got that timeout
> >again.
> 
> This seems to imply the timeout occurs during
> Windows login.

It also occurs during the Solaris desktop login and logout, but not
during connect and disconnect with a smart card.

> Is it both? Or just Windows?

Those are the things that trigger the timeout every time.

> What kind of hardware platform are you using?
> Are you using Solaris or Linux?

Solaris 10 8/07 x86.

> If you have an undersized and overloaded server,
> any period of intense system activity can cause
> temporary starvation of heartbeats to the Sun Ray
> which can result in timeouts such as you describe
> if the resource oversubscription is sufficiently
> large and/or kernel scheduling is sufficiently
> poor. So we need to understand your situation better.

No, it's not that.  The Sun Ray server is typically idle.
I can produce the timeout reliably with those three triggers.
It only happens with my Sun Ray behind my NAT router.

-- 
-Gary Mills-    -Unix Support-    -U of M Academic Computing and Networking-
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