On 24/03/2008, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:46:56AM +0100, Joost Witteveen wrote: > > On 23/03/2008, Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'm trying to tunnel an iceweasel instance via ssh from one > > > of my boxes at my house to remember the name of an add-on i > > > installed. > > > > > > The problem is that i create a ssh session (ssh -XC > > > ssh.psychotik.info), login and run iceweasel at the bash > > > prompt, which takes forever, but then finally *opens a local > > > iceweasel!!!* > > > > I suppose that iceweasel -P uniqueprofilename would do what you want? > > > > Also, it's *much* faster use vnc (tunnel through ssh): on the remote > > host, start: vnc4server on your localhost, start (and login to) ssh -L > > 5900:server:5901 server > > > > and then on the localhost (different window) vncviewer localhost:5900 > > > > The 5901 portnumer is assuming the vncserver opens a X11 screen on :1. > > When I start epiphany diretly over X11, it takes about 30 min to show > > a page; when I do it using VNC as above, it takes seconds. > > > I run iceweasel over ssh all the time, however, I don't have it > installed locally so there's no local version to run. It may take a few > seconds to give the initial window, but then it displays as fast as the > box can swap. The network is 100 MB/s ethernet, the box I'm sitting at > is a P-II with 64 MB ram, the box I'm sshing into to run iceweasel is an > AMD Athlon64 with 1 GB ram. It doesn't even take 30 minutes to show a > page when I ssh from my 486 with 32 MB ram so something is wrong there. > > Why would VNC be faster if both are encrypted? >
No, over a 100Mb/s ethernet, running iceweasel over VNC probably wouldn't be much faster than directly over ssh (and running over an ssh-tunneled VNC connection would of course be slower than straigt VNC). But the OP complained iceweasel was very slow. So I suppose he didn't run it over a direct 100Mb/s connection, but over something slower, probably with larger ping times, ping times of 10-30 ms are enough to make it slow, and with slow, I mean that it can take over 20 min for iceweasel to even start showing the home page. I notice that when that happens, starting iceweasel on the remote site on a VNC X server an watching the output via a VNC viewer is a lot faster. And a lot here means just a couple of seconds to show the home page, instead of 20 min. As the OP reported using ssh, I assumed he didn't want to connect unencrypted (somethign VNC as far as I know does), so I suggested using an ssh tunnel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
