From: Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: X-Forwarding over wireless
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:55:03 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <erkas7$87f$2@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1172151889.19225.25.camel@blackwidow.nbk
On 2007-02-22, Albert Hopkins <marduk@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 05:06 -0800, 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.
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-21 14:45 [gentoo-user] X-Forwarding over wireless Grant
2007-02-22 8:09 ` Jakob
[not found] ` <1172080487.31460.4.camel@blackwidow.nbk>
2007-02-22 13:06 ` Grant
2007-02-22 13:44 ` Albert Hopkins
2007-02-22 14:55 ` Grant Edwards [this message]
2007-02-22 15:05 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant
2007-02-22 15:26 ` Uwe Thiem
2007-02-22 15:26 ` Grant Edwards
2007-02-22 15:24 ` Uwe Thiem
2007-02-22 15:49 ` Grant Edwards
2007-02-22 17:59 ` Hans-Werner Hilse
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