From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-60309-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@gentoo.org>) id 1HKIPv-00074g-4U for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:11:43 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l1MI9Edn014389; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:09:14 GMT Received: from gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de (gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de [134.76.163.126]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l1MHxh09001416 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:59:43 GMT Received: by gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de (Postfix, from userid 8) id BD35E10927A; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:59:42 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (dslc-082-082-177-137.pools.arcor-ip.net [82.82.177.137]) by gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A46610926E for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:59:39 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:59:38 +0100 From: Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@web.de> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X-Forwarding over wireless Message-Id: <20070222185938.f6b39109.hilse@web.de> In-Reply-To: <erke2l$kc0$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <49bf44f10702210645u17c0c2f6re191906ba6de3fc2@mail.gmail.com> <1172151889.19225.25.camel@blackwidow.nbk> <erkas7$87f$2@sea.gmane.org> <200702221724.16471.uwix@iway.na> <erke2l$kc0$1@sea.gmane.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.3.1 (GTK+ 2.10.9; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Details: No, hits=1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL autolearn=no version=2.64 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de X-Archives-Salt: 3d717d94-009b-414b-886e-20616d7d408f X-Archives-Hash: ad02481bdc680adfa93f5ef1b48f41c4 Hi, On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:49:42 +0000 (UTC) Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com> wrote: > On 2007-02-22, Uwe Thiem <uwix@iway.na> 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 hw@butch ~ $ 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