Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!cheops!colemanm From: colemanm@cheops.qld.tne.oz.au (Mark Coleman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: X-terminals and VUE Message-ID: <1991Jun4.041555.14743@cheops.qld.tne.oz.au> Date: 4 Jun 91 04:15:55 GMT References: <101950223@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com> Organization: Telecom Australia, TNE Computer Support Services Lines: 53 bcripe@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Brian E. Cripe) writes: >32 Mb Cobra? Sounds like a great workstation to me :-) [I will trade >you for what I have.] >I suspect your estimate of 4-5 xterms and 1 emacs is rather low. Every >VUE user I have encountered loves populating all of those workspaces with >applications. My off-the-cuff guess is that you could support 2 typical >users. > Brian Cripe I'm fairly new to all this 'X' stuff but I do all my system admin on a NCD 17" colour Xterminal with 4 Mb of installed memory and backing store off. The X Term boots via tftp from a HP9000/340 and runs the vuewm from another HP9000/340 with 16 Mb of installed memory running HPUX-7.0 and we can run two people off it both with large numbers of apps from a number of different UN*X boxes. The 340 providing the vue sessions potters along at approx .75 load with acceptable responses to vue services requests. To give you an indication of what I have as a home session I'll list them. Workspace 1: console and File manager Workspace 2: four xloads of remote HP9000 systems Workspace 3: xload and hpterm of a remote Pyramid MiServer 4/4 Workspace 4: two xloads of remote HP9000 systems out of Workspace 2 Workspace 5: A general screen for adhoc terminals to ping remote systems etc.. Workspace 6: hpterm on the Pyramid for reading news. Going from one workspace to another is instantaneous( or as near as damn it) and the only bottleneck I have encountered is executing remote shells on loaded down systems. I believe that HPUX-8.0 provides shared libraries so as to reduce memory requirements on the client machine. Recently a S.E. from HP here locally mentioned that Vue runs better under 8.0 and it was only really a memory problem. The new snakes are I believe great at FP calculations and have great Lan throughput but being only new to X and its mechanics I not sure what part Floating Point has in X perfomance. Hope I helped in some way.....MarkC..... -- Mark Coleman O O EMAIL: colemanm@cheops.qld.tne.oz.au Telecom Australia | FAX: +61 7 837 4704 TNE Computer Support Services ***** PH: +61 7 837 3143 Brisbane, Queensland. OZ \===/ "You'll find these are my opinions alone"