True.. One of the other major issues with X terms is animation in your window manager. All the cutesy little things we take for granted on a normal workstation can make network traffic a nightmare for Xterms/LTSP setups..
Something like an analogue clock in the panel under KDE can give you a 2-3% increase in network traffic for a 10Mbs client. Even a blinking cursor can do nasty things for the LAN if it's not standard X object in some apps. NFS rooted (pivot rooted I assume?) workstations only use the LAN when they need to access the filesystem, which is a different scenario again, as changes on the display do not necessarily cause LAN traffic. Once an LTSP machine has loaded X there is very little traffic to the NFS mounted root directory, unless you run local apps, which is then the same as a normal NFSrooted client. Cheers, Chris.. -----Original Message----- From: Ryurick M. Hristev > Although I had to piddle around quite a bit to get the video to work I seem > to remember. It was still quite usable with a 10Mb NIC. Only at 800x600 > though from memory... 10Mbs vs 100 Mbs debate for client can't be settled unless you know what kind of apps you want to run (which decides how much data is pushed down the wire). For normal usage we have heaps of nfsroot terminals quite happy with 10Mbs. OTOH if you want to stream video or huge data across (videogames ?) than it might be another matter. ###################################################################### The contents of this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient please delete the message and notify the sender. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author, and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Selwyn District Council ######################################################################
