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Subject:    Re: [ngw] Running GW 7.0.3 C.P. Client under openSUSE 10.3 on
From:       "James Taylor" <James.Taylor () eastcobbgroup ! com>
Date:       2008-03-30 2:01:14
Message-ID: 47EEBC2A.9252.0075.0 () eastcobbgroup ! com
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All of my workstations are running openSUSE 10.3, and the  client works reasonably \
well on them. However, they are all 64bit with 2-3GB of RAM, and my largest mailbox \
is currently 3GB.

I only have one w/s with ext3, and I intend to change it to Reiser as soon as I \
upgrade to openSUSE 11.0 due to issues other than performance I have with ext3.

Your problem may be related to the size of the mailbox, but could be due to some kind \
of local mailbox corruption.

You could try running a local gwcheck to see if that will help. 
You might also make sure that the client and gwcheck are only listed once in YAST \
software management.  Due to multiple upgrades I have done to the GW client, I found \
that it was listed twice on a couple of my workstations.  I removed both and \
reinstalled.

Worst case, you could delete the cache and re-prime it, if you can get the machine \
local to the server.

-jt 


James Taylor
The East Cobb Group, Inc.
678-697-9420
james.taylor@eastcobbgroup.com
http://www.eastcobbgroup.com



> > > On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at  8:41 PM, in message
<47EEA968.C494.0051.0@twinman.com>, "Kevin Salisbury" <KSalisbury@twinman.com>
wrote: 

> I'm experiencing extremely poor caching/remote client performance with the 
> subject setup using Ext 3 as the file system. 10-15 second lags when opening a 
> new message. 15-20 second lags when opening another folder or the calendar. 
> The mailbox in question is an embarrassingly huge 10GB. (Before I'm lectured; 
> Yes, I'm almost done with my Retain testing and Policy paper, and as soon as 
> I have my shiny iSCSI SAN online - mailboxes like this will no longer be an 
> issue.) 
> 
> Snipped from the docs, concerning Install Requirements;
> 
> <...>
> 8.2.2 GroupWise Cross-Platform Client on Linux
> 
> Any of the following desktop operating systems:
> o            Novell Linux Desktop, plus the KDE desktop or the 
> GNOME desktop
> o            SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, plus the KDE 
> desktop or the GNOME desktop
> o            Red Hat Desktop 4 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 4, 
> plus the GNOME desktop
> Java Virtual Machine (JVM) 1.5 or later
> 200 MB of free disk space to install the GroupWise Cross-Platform 
> client
> <...>
> 
> I see that openSUSE is not officially supported, but our friend Alex Evans 
> has cheated like I have with some success ( 
> http://www.novell.com/coolblogs/?p=1033 ) so I'm going to assume (perhaps 
> wrongly?) that it's not openSUSE 10.3 per se that is causing my speed 
> problem. Besides using openSUSE, everything else is more than above the 
> requirements listed.
> 
> After all the wonderful advice we heard at BrainShare (Summed up nicely here 
> I think; http://preview.tinyurl.com/32ld7h ) it was drilled into me that if I 
> run the server components on SLES, I need to choose the Reiser file system 
> and if I'm on OES2, then I also have the option of a new NSS volume created 
> without salvage (and anything else deemed unnecessary).  
> 
> With this in mind, should we also assume that for large, caching mailboxes 
> under SLED or OpenSuse - the Reiser file system would be our only real choice 
> for acceptable database performance? If so, should the documentation reflect 
> this?
> 
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