On 2007-02-22, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I wonder if I need more power on the machine running the apps instead >> >> of more bandwidth. It has 512MB and I do need to upgrade that, but it >> >> feels like a bandwidth problem when I'm running vmware via >> >> X-Forwarding. >> >> >> > >> > Could be bandwidth. >> >> More likely it's latency. Most "modern" X apps seem to require >> a lot of round-trips between client and server. The latency of >> a Wifi link is probably 10-100X that of a wired Ethernet link, >> even if the bandwidth is the same: A 54M Wifi link may >> actually have more bandwidth than a 10M wired Ethernet link, >> but the lower latancy of the wired link will result in >> better performance for some classes of applications. > > Do you think vnc or nx would be a significant improvement over > x-forwarding?
I've never directly compared the them, but I've seen posts by others saying they've have had better luck with vnc or nx on high latency links. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I am having FUN... I at wonder if it's NET FUN or visi.com GROSS FUN? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list