At Fri, 2 Oct 2009 16:55:51 +0100 CentOS mailing list <centos at 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/