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On 22 February 2007 17:05, Grant wrote: |
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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 |
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> x-forwarding? |
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nx definitely would. I saw a whole KDE session over an ISDN link - and it felt |
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like local. |
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Uwe |
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A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE: |
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http://www.SysEx.com.na/iwy-1.0.tar.bz2 |
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Proof of concept of a TSP solver for KDE: |
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http://www.SysEx.com.na/epat-0.1.tar.bz2 |
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