Hi, On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:49:42 +0000 (UTC) Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2007-02-22, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 22 February 2007 16:55, Grant Edwards wrote: > > > >> 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: > > > > Where do you get that number from? > > My Wifi network often has latencies of 50-100ms, while typical > wired latencies are 1-5ms. I assumed that's typical. It could > be there's something screwy in my WAP -- it does lock up not > infrequently. I think that's your WAP. On my link, the latency is and stays at about 2.8 msec (11MBit 802.11b link). If you have a userland daemon involved, you might get better results w/ a high HZ value. -hwh [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ping lsys PING lsys (192.168.2.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from lsys (192.168.2.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=2.59 ms [...] 64 bytes from lsys (192.168.2.1): icmp_seq=20 ttl=64 time=2.63 ms --- lsys ping statistics --- 20 packets transmitted, 20 received, 0% packet loss, time 18997ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 2.511/2.756/3.162/0.208 ms -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
