Rich Teer wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently installed a Sun Ray 2FS in my wife's office, and the > performance--especially the screen update speed--is noticably > slower than when I experimented with it here first. Here, I used > my Ultra 20 (2.6 GHz Opteron 152 CPU, 2 GB of RAM, and NVidia FX1400 > video card), while her office is using a Sun Fire X2100 (2.2 GHz > Opteron <mumble>, 1 GB of RAM, and whatever rudimentary video card > the X2100 comes with). The network config (small 100 baseT switched > LAN) was the same in both cases. One other difference is that my > Ultra 20 was running Nevada b81 whereas the X2100 is running b82 (not > that I'd think that'd make a difference). Oh, and this is with the > latest version of the Sun Ray server software. > > So my question is: what is likely to be the main cause of the difference > in performance? Is it the video card or (as I'm hoping is the case) > is it the CPU and/or memory? (If it's the latter I can make an easier > case to replace the X2100 with something more beefy.) > > TIA, > > The bottleneck is memory, disk i/o, not the cpu (Though more cores would help) or video card. The video card would only affect media apps like mplayer, not really gnome/jds.
James
