All,

We recently completed a SRS5 upgrade which included new hardware, SUN M3000 
systems which is a major improvement over v240s.    In the past we had around 
20-40 users on each v240 since the M3k's are much faster we are running about 
100-120 users per machine now.  Often times I seen system load spikes upward to 
800+, looking at top during  this extreme load level the gnome-vfs-daemon 
processes seems to be causing this spike in load.

After much research I have located several bugs( I realize that these bugs are 
very old) that document a problem in which the gnome-vfs-daemon is a bit too 
aggressive in its updates. Please see documents linked below for additional 
information on this issue:

http://blogs.sun.com/tpenta/entry/dtracing_on_the_train_gnome
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6821951
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-1-6821951-1

Even after setting the value to 60seconds I still see load spikes sporadically 
throughout the day.  Has anyone attempted to disable gnome-vfs-daemon 
altogether?   Is this possible?  What are the drawbacks in an environment where 
the majority of users access filesystems via CLI?

Lastly, has anyone enabled Solaris Resource Management on a Sunray server?  Is 
this recommended by Oracle/SUN?  With the number users we have per server it 
would nice if we could prevent users from abusing our Sunray servers.


Thanks.

-Marc Juarez






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