On 01/16/2018 at 23:01 Chris Marusich writes: > George myglc2 Clemmer <[email protected]> writes: > >> I want to speed up IceCat on my GuixSD headless server. I am using >> XQuartz/MacOS over 1000BaseT to reach a server with 3.4GHz Intel E3-1240 >> V3 CPU and SSD storage. ISTM this is about as fast as one can make a >> headless server. But IceCat is unusably slow. So I wonder ... >> >> Do you run IceCat remotely from a GuixSD desktop and get good >> performance? If so, please tell me about your setup. >> >> Would Wayland make it faster? >> >> Would an upgrade to a CPU w/GPU make it faster? >> >> TIA - George > > For what it's worth, I have run Firefox in similar situations (not > involving GuixSD), and I have always found it to be un-usably slow over > a remote X connection. I never bothered to try to make it faster; I'm > intrigued that you were able to make it better at all. > > You may also consider doing the following to speed things up: > > - Use compression (e.g., "ssh -C") (helps quite a bit in some cases) > - Limit the color palette to the fewest colors possible (helps a > little)
Thanks Chris. I used -C when forced to run X over the inet or slower links at work but it didn't occur to me to try it on 1000BaseT. I will check these ideas out and let you know if they make a meaningful diff. - George
