[huskerlug] Re: X11 portforwarding question
- From: Carl Lundstedt <clundst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: huskerlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: 26 Aug 2002 14:31:21 -0400
On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 14:04, Shane Geiger wrote:
>
> Carl,
>
> Compression will reduce the amount of information that has to be passed,
> causing the performance of the network to appear to be better. (However, the
> price you pay is additional CPU cycles on both ends.)
>
CPU shouldn't be a problem on either end.
> What are the symptoms of the problem? Is it merely the initial connection
> that seems to be slow or does the X11 forwarding just generally slow?
>
Initial window draws, redraws and event response are terrible. I seem
to recall getting better results with telnet and port forwarding (via
modem) than with ssh alone (via dsl/cable).
(I'll never go back to telnet though, no matter what).
Carl
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