User Guide and Manual for Project Canary

The red lines denote CPU utilization and the green lines denote the number of Xsun processes running.
Typically, there is one Xsun process for each display being managed.
Note that the red lines move up and down during the workday. This particular Sun Ray server is on an
engineering campus so the day “starts” a little later and “ends” a little later than it would in a standard office
environment with more rigid working hours. In the off-hours and at usual “meeting times” and lunchtimes,
the red lines should drop significantly. If they do not, then there is a potential runaway to be investigated.
Note the large drop in the graph above where the number of Xsun processes dropped significantly on a
normally busy server. One may infer that there were service outages of one form or another on that server
from this graph or that many users may have been “idled out” and forcibly logged out of the Sun Ray server.
Project Canary software also tracks Java applications and the resources consumed by the Java Virtual machines
running. This is useful on all types of servers since many new applications use Java as part of their operation.
This is especially important to track on data center servers which may be using Java to connect applications or
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