Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!hpfcso!hpfcmgw!munir From: munir@hpfcmgw.HP.COM (Munir Mallal) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: X on 9000/318's Message-ID: <1080177@hpfcmgw.HP.COM> Date: 2 Nov 90 21:36:49 GMT References: Organization: HP Fort Collins, CO Lines: 22 >We have about 7 hp 9000/318 which used to be faculty workstations >before we got some 345's. The 318's have 4 Megs are are now diskless >student machines. The problem: X11 barely runs on these things. It is >*real* slow and unresponsive. My questions is: Is there a way of running >the X11 Server on one of our more powerful hp's and run a small program >on the diskless which just draws to the screen. This way, the apps could >still run on the diskless but the server would be on a big server. Is >this possible/impossible/stupid? What you might be able to do to improve the performance is to tune the kernel on the diskless nodes to increase the amount of RAM available to X. A good start is to reduce nbuf since once X is started, there will be little filesystem activity. Also make sure that only essential processes are running on the 318s. Munir Mallal Disclaimer: Tuning only improves inefficiently used resources, you will never get more performance than your machine has to offer. My opinions are my own, HP has a support process which will probably yeild better results.