On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 10:20:16AM -0500, Luis Mochan wrote: > Thanks everybody for their answers and suggestions. I have tried X > forwarding, but sometimes it is too slow (my network's fault, I > believe), so I guess I'll just keep my separate configuration files in > sync.
Hi Luis, If you are working across the internet then many things can cause SSH to be slow and it requires both ends to do encryption/decryption so running on slow PCs can also affect it. If you are on your own network, one thing you can do that can significantly speed up X forwarding is using the RC4 (ARCFOUR) cipher instead of the default. It is not as secure as the other ciphers, but it is much, much faster. It is worth trying if you need X forwarding for some reason. On my local network I use several servers and use X forwarding heavily. The performance is as good as direct connection, but in reality only a few meters of cables are separating me from the servers so I would expect nothing less. -- ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) Powered by Lemote Fuloong against HTML e-mail X Loongson MIPS and OpenBSD and proprietary / \ http://www.mutt.org attachments Code Blue or Go Home!
