Re: Going from Windows to X - suggestions

2002-12-18 Thread Raphaël Dingé
Anyway, If you find some solutions with 16 MB Ram, I would be happy to know it, since I can't use my old laptop for now. twm? hehehe. Initially the old laptop was for a friend of mine, who doesn't know much about computer, so I thought that perverting one more to FreeBSD was a great

Re: X over ethernet is too much slow...

2002-12-16 Thread Raphaël Dingé
What does the CPU utilization look like on each machine ? On the server side, CPU never goes up to 3% On the client side, I don't know since I don't have top compiled on Windows (to able to execute it in X). But the computer is really fast. How much of that is the SSH process ? sshd is

Re: X over ethernet is too much slow...

2002-12-16 Thread Raphaël Dingé
What does your switch say ? switch says 100 full. I have a (NetBSD) box here which, for some reason, refuses to go into full duplex mode, though it claims it is in full duplex. And there is no way to know about reality ? I just can't trust ifconfig ? By the way I've set

Re: X over ethernet is too much slow...

2002-12-16 Thread Raphaël Dingé
Using compression flag on the ssh client ? Hmm, I seem to have missed this. Are you on an open network ? Yes my network is open to Internet, I have an Apple Airport Station which handles my pppoe connection, with portmapping enabled. Rules of portmapping is : - we don't serve anything here

Re: X over ethernet is too much slow...

2002-12-15 Thread Raphaël Dingé
One common problem is when your NIC is set to half-duplex operation and everything else is set to full duplex. I've done an ifconfig as mentioned in the handbook, and it says that my card (rl0) : media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex) and of course it is active. I check on the PC

Re: X over ethernet is too much slow...

2002-12-15 Thread Raphaël Dingé
Using compression flag on the ssh client ? No. But I've just tried. It slows down a little, but not much. I would say that pictures do not takes 2 seconds but 2.5 seconds. Well. But it's quite far from 1/4 ;) processing power of either station getting overwhelmed by the bursty graphics

Re: X over ethernet is too much slow...

2002-12-15 Thread Raphaël Dingé
I've the following configuration : - an ASUS mini-pc with FreeBSD on it, 900 MHz, 256 MBytes, connected on an ethernet local network. - 2 PC running Windows with X server via cygwin (each with 1,4GHz Athlon CPU, 256 MBytes RAM) - All of them are connected with a 100 Mbits switch. Basically in

X over ethernet is too much slow...

2002-12-15 Thread Raphaël Dingé
Hi everyone, I've the following configuration : - an ASUS mini-pc with FreeBSD on it, 900 MHz, 256 MBytes, connected on an ethernet local network. - 2 PC running Windows with X server via cygwin (each with 1,4GHz Athlon CPU, 256 MBytes RAM) - All of them are connected with a 100 Mbits switch.