Ross, If you are getting timeouts then the this means that the server computer is actually not contactable. This may be because it has a dynamic IP address that has changed at some point, or because there is a problem with its network interface.
There is no way that defragmenting your hard drives can be affecting things, I'm afraid. Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. -----Original Message----- From: Ross MacGillivray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 February 2005 20:10 To: James Weatherall Subject: Re: VNC Sensitive to Disk Fragmentation To answer you question specifically "time out" between client and server at the initial connection occurs. The VNC client cannot connect to the VNC server. This seems to happen long before any other application including network applications like e-mail and web browsers are affected. Completion of a disk defragmentation on client and/or server usually eliminates the problem. The VNC server is running as an XP service, so it should be up and running. I cannot speak to whether the VNC service has been paged to disk or not. This may well be a Windows XP problem, but VNC exhibits the symptoms before other applications. The above information is all imperical, since it is difficult, at least for me, to find tools to properly characterized what Windows XP is doing. If you can suggest any tools that characterize swapfile performance, I would be pleased to investigate further. /Ross _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
