Are you using VNC 4.0? If so, I had similar problems. I finally went back to VNC 3.3.7 because it does a better job. My problem was with the blinking cursor in Putty sessions and in Microsoft Office. The cursor would disappear for long periods of time. I tried every setting I could in VNC 4.0 and could never get the cursors to update satisfactorily. It's very frustrating trying to move around in a document when you can't see the cursor. I'm wondering if your VU meters not updating is a similar problem. It seems that going to 4.0 they tried to improve bandwidth usage, but I think the algorithm they use to determine if an area needs to be updated doesn't work very well. Anyway, after trying a long time with 4.0 I finally gave up and went back to 3.3.7. I believe it is still available on the realVNC website.
John From: "Reid Kaplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Yet another performance question for a simple application Date sent: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 09:13:11 -0400 [ Double-click this line for list subscription options ] I just installed RealVNC Server on a 1.3 mhz WinXP Home machine that is connected to a Motorola router at 10mbps. I installed the Viewer on an IBM T41 laptop Centrino WinXP Pro (also nominally 1.3 mhz) connected to that router via Wifi with about the same bandwidth. The application is the remote control of Adobe Audition 1.5 and the Echo Console3 in a recording room while the software is running on the tower in another room (to eliminate noise). Mics are connected via long XLR cables to the mic preamps and thence to a pro soundcard in the server. All this is so the musician can control recording takes without pressure, by herself. I have slimmed down everything within the viewer and server I can think of, but there are still significant time lapses between remote action and server response and vice versa. Audition paints the wave form and the VU meters on the host along with the elapsed recording time. The VU meters do NOT respond on the remote and Audition's record clock display is only updated every 6 seconds on the remote (although updated every .1 seconds on the server). The waveform rarely is repainted. The viewer software tells me that transfer is occuring at about 6800 kbits/sec. This should be enough to handle screen scraping. Task Mgr on the server tells me that only about 23% of CPU is being used (by RealVNC and there is still about 250mb (out of 512mb) memory free. Again, I have disabled every nonessential feature in VNC and lowered screen colors and pixel resolution. Is there anything else I can do to accelerate performance? Should I try another product? If so, which (of the many competing choices)? I have no interest in sysadmin features or management. I merely want a replicated console. TIA, Reid Kaplan _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list ________________________________________________________ John R. Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://larsen-family.us _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
