On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 08:43:20AM -0400, Tom Russell wrote: > There are some products, like Oracle 9i, that require X to run the install > process. When we connected to the Linux guest through a large cross > country network using an X server on Windows, the response was positively > geologic. Installing VNC on the Linux guest and connecting with the VNC > viewer gave us quite reasonable response times. The traffic between the > x-client (the Oracle installer) and the x-server (your terminal) can be > quite heavy... I think you get a transmission for every pixel the mouse > traverses. By putting the x-server in the Linux guest this heavy traffic > never leaves the Linux machine.
Ahem... Those pixels still need to get to your viewer eventually. > > It has the added advantage of recovery. When you break the VNC viewer > session to the VNC server, the session between the x-client (Oracle > installer) and the x-server (VNC server on Linux)remains active. You can > connect up again with no loss of data after going home for example. However you should remember to kill the vnc server eventually. Recall that the X server is a desktop of a specific user. (And I hope you don't run X as root) BTW: The "lazy update" optimization of VNC indeed saves bandwidth, but it also means that you occasionally have to move your mouse pointer to refesh some parts of the screen. > > >From: Richard Troth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Re: X11 vs VNC...scarry > > >> Is taking 20% of an H30 processor just to keep it idling. > > >I use VNC all the time on my PC based X desktop. > >I do not see the high idle time. But there may be one or two > >processes started by KDE that are not completely happy with VNC. > >VNC does lack certain extensions that KDE wants. Don't use a KDE desktop. Don't use gnome. Use a simpler desktop. You won't have such problems :-) I mean it: if all you'll need is running some commands, then you'll need mostly some xterms open. Consider adding something like midnight commander or rox-filer. Simplicity, elegancy, and (the more relevant points) resource usage and bandwidth :-) -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+
