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> >> I wonder if I need more power on the machine running the apps instead |
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> >> of more bandwidth. It has 512MB and I do need to upgrade that, but it |
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> >> feels like a bandwidth problem when I'm running vmware via |
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> >> X-Forwarding. |
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> > |
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> > Could be bandwidth. |
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> More likely it's latency. Most "modern" X apps seem to require |
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> a lot of round-trips between client and server. The latency of |
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> a Wifi link is probably 10-100X that of a wired Ethernet link, |
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> even if the bandwidth is the same: A 54M Wifi link may |
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> actually have more bandwidth than a 10M wired Ethernet link, |
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> but the lower latancy of the wired link will result in |
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> better performance for some classes of applications. |
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Do you think vnc or nx would be a significant improvement over x-forwarding? |
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- Grant |
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