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 ) id 1HKFeM-0005Ow-AL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:14:26 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l1MFCQFW025071; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:12:26 GMT Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.251]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l1MF5MeT014851 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:05:23 GMT Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b8so128842ana for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:05:22 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=BriYSLV7hPdcRuglWWjXAuqjpx4JC6442XkvOltUrXEq4VwCsgwlRAJJ6jH/vJShsaX5GAk1ybjKfXrzhr9EdZb5BpkYztfNnphpJGD55Opsp4DnCFweyTHxaCGxsMYUoHbESH3lPpHO4b8V7hiaiT+p7qrdM7eEltf1hfIkXTw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=LtMN2cd97VNXREs45Nov2si7FBiynh9nqVgfsTY08Bzypxz4F1pdfCVbdxw2udWGnxbq8LYTMFyj43wZ5r4jAb472x1u0UFAWYxwUO/t/AEanqrq7uXqhS5eajOSDChoFottlp2HVIgUViPPwOPmr08IuioXfJoYi9K+P0fW83s= Received: by 10.114.110.1 with SMTP id i1mr296860wac.1172156721377; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:05:21 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.176.16 with HTTP; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:05:21 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <49bf44f10702220705qc4e4be2u7cbe798fd1ffa896@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:05:21 -0800 From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X-Forwarding over wireless In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <49bf44f10702210645u17c0c2f6re191906ba6de3fc2@mail.gmail.com> <1172080487.31460.4.camel@blackwidow.nbk> <49bf44f10702220506w661b3b0ex225cf40a7df6281e@mail.gmail.com> <1172151889.19225.25.camel@blackwidow.nbk> X-Archives-Salt: 05b6b6b2-29c0-4fb0-bca5-fa1cbb3bd757 X-Archives-Hash: 59b2addf06049d0ef18f83fa6b765b2e > >> 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? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list