Just to add a couple of things to Luke's comments, here - guacd is already converting everything from the RDP protocol to images that get sent to the browser, so most of this work is already something guacd is doing. There me be a slightly higher bit of overhead from a resource perspective due to the FreeRDP library having to convert things, but I would expect it'll be minimal.
-Nick On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 12:00 AM ivanmarcus <[email protected]> wrote: > Grigory, > > I generally enable this feature for users. It does not appear to impact > server load significantly, although I've not had more than ~100 concurrent > users. > > I turn it off for users on a budget connection - this is more about speed > of delivery than server concerns. > > On 6/08/2020 11:48 p.m., Grigory Trenin wrote: > > Hi All, > > I'm considering whether to allow our Guacamole users to use RDP font > smoothing (currently this setting is hidden from them and they don't use > it). > Will enabling font smoothing produce additional CPU load on the server > running guacd+Tomcat? > > FreeRDP manual says that "[smooth fonts] are sent as images, which may be > slower". > > Will CPU load be increased if we allow users to use smooth fonts, and to > what degree? > > > Kind regards, > Grigory Trenin > > >
