i have a gigabit port so nic should not be a problem. i have got complaints saying applications such as gv, xdvi, acroread open slower in new server i dont find any other reason for this are the newer versions of these software slower? somebody please help Jeetu On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 00:56, Peter Eddy wrote: > > On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 22:12, Jeetendra Mirchandani wrote: > > > >>>>recently we migrated a server from SunOS to FC1 > >>>> > >>>>we are getting a problem that X applications such as gv/xdvi are running > >>>>very slow, with display exported > > I assume this means they're slower now than before the migration? > > >>>It's most probably the default X video drivers, as they are > >>>NOT 3D accelerated. You will need to google for the 3D accelerated > >>>driver for the type of video card that system has. Once you have done > >>>that you will notice that it will be much faster. > >> > >>but i am exporting display. does the video driver come into play here? > > You wouldn't think so, but I can't say for certain. I've occasionally > run into situations where exported displays suddenly seemed much slower, > and it's turned out that the NIC on one of the machines was running at > 10 Mbit instead of 100. Worth checking. > > Peter >
