I found there was a very noticable slowdown when using VNC on a 100baseT local network if the host and client color depths didn't match. For example, if the host was running 8 bpp and the client was running 24 bpp, scrolling was jerky and laggy; when I bumped the host color depth up to 24 bpp it became smooth. This was with the server on a Linux machine, and the client running under Windows NT.
-----Original Message----- From: Joel Sherrill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 3:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Success was Re: VNC Server setup on Linux It might also be worth mentioning that if you are running a number of sessions, the difference between 8 and 24 bit color depth is noticeable on the CPU load. I pop'ed up a single VNC client session with a terminal and then continuously cat'ed /etc/termcap while running top on the console. On a 1 Ghz machine, there was approximately 20% difference in CPU load. I would guess that for most users 8 bit depth is more than sufficient and seems to place less strain on the host and network. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
