And what will also help: Use VNC.

get it from http://www.tightvnc.org

This will allow you to start restores from across the ocean at local
speeds. Tested.

Wout.

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, James C. McPherson wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 11:49:19 -0800 "M. Barnabas Luntzel" <mark AT luntzel DOT 
> com> wrote:
>
> > You know, using the java interface (jnbSA) over ssh and a vpn... It's so
> > slow, I may as well shoot myself.
> > Anybody at veritas listening? the Motif interface was nice and fast, 
> > compared
> > to this POS. How about we have that back, just for me. and anybody else who
> > isn't local to their master.
> > I can't be alone in this. Another one for the archive.
>
>
> Actually, you're not alone. This is an issue which I picked up during beta
> testing. I was not impressed with Veritas Engineering's response either. A
> colleague of mine currently has an open escalation on this issue, so yes,
> Veritas is listening, and progress (albeit slow) is being made.
>
> If you want, you could try the following unsupported workaround:
>
>
> from Sun bugid 4633120:
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Check the version of the jvm/jre that the jnbSA gui is using:
>
> # pwd
> /opt/openv/java/jre/bin
> # ./java -fullversion ; ./java -version
> java full version "1.3.0"
> java version "1.3.0"
> Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.3.0)
> Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.3.0, mixed mode)
>
> The default optimizations in the HotSpot Client VM are mainly for startup 
> speed
> and not for general speed of execution, and you need to change the invocation
> to get different behaviour. In order to get the "server" optimizations you 
> need
> to invoke with
>
> -server
>
> so chang the invocation line in the jnbSA script to this:
>
>
> $JAVA_PATH -server -Dvrts.NBJAVA_CONF=$NBJ_CONF \
>   -Dvrts.nbu.admin.MAX_HEAP_SIZE=$MAX_MEMORY \
> -Dvrts.common.utilities.DEBUG_PROPERTIES=$DEBUG_PROPERTIES  \
> -Xbootclasspath:$JAVA_LIB   -Xms$INITIAL_MEMORY -Xmx$MAX_MEMORY \
> vrts.nbe.AdminConsole >> $LOG_FILE 2>&1
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> note the "-server" immediately after $JAVA_PATH.
>
> Stay tuned.
>
> best regards,
> James C. McPherson
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