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