[SunRay-Users] EXTERNAL:Re: EXTERNAL: Sun Desktop Access Client (SDAC / soft client) poor performance

[Devin Nate]

Ahh, now that's something we haven't done yet... packet capture of the uttsc data. So far we've done a packet capture of the dtu<-->srss and compared with sdac<-->srss, and we couldn't see any difference there.

I'll report observations asap.

That said, would a difference in uttsc traffic to the terminal servers cause utcapture to indicate a higher latency?

Thanks,
Devin



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From: sunray-users-bounces at filibeto.org [mailto:sunray-users-bounces at filibeto.org] On Behalf Of Nishimura, Scott L (IT Solutions)
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 3:16 PM
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Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] EXTERNAL:Re: EXTERNAL: Sun Desktop Access Client (SDAC / soft client) poor performance

Devin,

  How about if you run a truss or pstack or similar troubleshooting tool
on uttsc and compare the results between the actual DTU and SDAC?

Does your sniffer test show excessive retransmissions?

Also, what MTU size is being used?  Too large [> 1470?] could lead to
fragmentation; too small [< 500] could lead to "laggy" performance
[we've run into that before on a physical DTU before].


Scott

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[mailto:sunray-users-bounces at filibeto.org] On Behalf Of Devin Nate
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Subject: EXTERNAL:Re: [SunRay-Users] EXTERNAL: Sun Desktop Access Client
(SDAC / soft client) poor performance

Hi Lars;

I completely agree... the problem is, the DTU and SDAC clients are on
identical networks... in fact, I've taken the cable out of a perfect DTU
and put it into a PC. I was thinking perhaps QoS or something tagging
the udp packages.

The PCs have Intel nic's. I'm tracking down totally different
architectures. Our core is all Cisco networking gear. We're looking to
setup a host on the same LAN directly connected to the core, that said
we had some hosts in the datacenter getting latency of 500.000, gig
connected but on a different subnet.

All that aside, the Sun DTU's work perfect on the same network. We're
going through everything with a fine tooth comb, but I'm not optimistic.

More thoughts?

Thanks,
Devin




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[mailto:sunray-users-bounces at filibeto.org] On Behalf Of Lars Tunkrans
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 2:36 PM
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Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] EXTERNAL: Sun Desktop Access Client (SDAC /
soft client) poor performance

2010-03-01 20:31, Devin Nate skrev:
> I'm really appreciating the ideas, please keep them coming?
>
> Thanks,
> Devin
>    

Hi,

   When I experience  laggy  screen updates  on a DTU  ist is usually 
becase there is
a problem with the network .

  As the list can testify:

   One returning problem is  Low end  flaky  L2 switches  with a  
gigabit input from the CORE  switch
and 100Mbit  link out to the DTU.  These L2 switches  drops UDP  packets

and forces  the DTU
to ask for them again .  Hence  the Laggy  screen updates.



   Now heres a long shot.....

if you are using  mainly the same  brand  pc ,  do they all have the 
same  LAN Card / CHipset ?
There are many kinds of problems  with  Chinese  wierdo combines  of  
PHY  / MAC   chipsets.
They come up with new combinations every week just to be able to 
produce  the motherboard  5 cents
cheaper.

   Should  you try   an  Intel  Pro1000  GT  Desktop adaptor ?   I think

so.

   
http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/adapters/pro1000gt/pro1000gt-overv
iew.htm

   This is probably the the most stable  ethernet card today,  since  
3COM  stopped making
   ethernet cards.


    Did you try to attach  the PC  directly to core switch  yet ?

     //Lars
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