Re: slow network
Re: slow network
- Subject: Re: slow network
- From: Bill Campbell <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:14:35 -0800
- Mail-followup-to: email@hidden
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006, fallenethers wrote:
>
>hi group.
>
>Sorry if this is a stupid question but I am new to x11.
>
>I am running a small media suite of 50 imac g5's and an xserve, (i
>asked a question a few weeks ago and fixed my problems with the
>advice given)
>and have started experimenting with x11. I have put it on all
>machines and have managed to get GIMP installed as the students need
>an image manipulation program. . All logged in users can open GIMP
>fine, x11 boots nicely etc. problem is that GIMP runs 3 times slower
>on network clients than when I run it on my laptop or any other
>computer locally. Is this speed decrease using x11 apps over a
>gigabit network to be expected? each g5 has a gig of ram.
>Is it a memory cache issue? Is there a workaround? Thanks for any
>help or tips or pointers!
What type of network, 10/100, megabit...?
Do you have reasonably smart switches, or ancient 10baseT hubs?
Is the software on a server or on the clients?
If you have NFS mounted servers, it's probably a Good Idea(tm) to
set the options so that they use tcp, not udp for the NFS
connections.
Bill
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