On Tue, 11 May 2004, Suresh wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone come across X applications re-engineered for low bandwidth networks, > This in the context of thin clients.
Low bandwidth or high latency ? Keith Packard and Jim Gettys have done some work on X clients as well as their work on low bandwidth X servers. If my memory is reliable, Owen Taylor did some work optimizing clients, possibly in the context of Motif. The low bandwidth case is essentially solved: avoid using lots of images ssh compression can help a lot the LBX extension might be worth trying, too with this combination, a fast modem connection (say 33Kbps) isn't painful in terms of bandwidth. What does kill X performance, even on cable modems (say 512Kbps) is latency. Especially at start up many X libraries make lots of round trip requests in serial. I don't remember the details, but you want to try to batch these requests, so that you get lots of answers in each round trip. (A way of making them in parallel would be nice too :). -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
