At Fri, 2 Oct 2009 16:55:51 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
This is definitely a weird interaction, as neither the screensaver nor its components actually run on the CentOS machine. I have not checked whether any other activities in a vnc session cause similar behaviour.
Where does the screensaver's data files (eg where are the quotes stored) live? If on the CentOS machine, then it is simply that the screensaver is making lots of NFS I/O operations.
On the filer. But this retrieval script runs on the RHEL3 box(es).
The retrieval script is/was hitting on the file server to fetch the quotes. It probably was doing something dumb and not caching the datafile. This file access was beating on your file server.
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