[desktop-discuss] Sun Ray performance question

[Alan Coopersmith]

James Cornell wrote:
> Rich Teer wrote:
>> So my question is: what is likely to be the main cause of the difference
>> in performance?  Is it the video card or (as I'm hoping is the case)
>> is it the CPU and/or memory?  (If it's the latter I can make an easier
>> case to replace the X2100 with something more beefy.)
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>>   
> The bottleneck is memory, disk i/o, not the cpu (Though more cores would 
> help) or video card.  The video card would only affect media apps like 
> mplayer, not really gnome/jds.

When using a Sun Ray, the video card in the server is completely unused
- many Sun Ray servers don't even have one.

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