Okay, I'm going to try uninstalling TightVNC 1.2.8 tonight and take a look at the latest RealVNC (3.3.7?) to see if it's significantly faster in my non-scientific opinion than TightVNC. I didn't see an RPM for RedHat 9, so I guess I'm gonna have to compile it. Oh, joy. :)
----- Original Message ----- From: "James ''Wez'' Weatherall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 12:48 PM Subject: Re: Another question about Cadence slowness > Fred, > > The Tight encoding was superceded in VNC release 3.3.4, which introduced > automatic encoding selection and the new ZRLE encoding. ZRLE provides > similar compression ratios to Tight (better in many cases) with less > processing overhead. > > Cheers, > > Dr. James Weatherall > RealVNC Ltd. - http://www.realvnc.com > > --- > > Jeff Boerio wrote: > > > > Fred, > > > > This is a problem we have observed as well. I'm sure you notice that > > the CPU of your Windows VNC client goes through the roof as it attempts > > to do things such as redraws. It is not a network issue at all, it is > > in the Windows client itself. > > > > I spent a lot of time working with the folks at Real VNC on this > > problem, and you should see an dramatic improvement in their next > > release. > > > > - Jeff > > Hi, Jeff, > > I do recall reading in the archives that work was > being done with RealVNC folks to deal with it. I > don't recall if the exact CAD tool was mentioned. > > I don't suppose that the change in code could be > easily incorporated into TightVNC? Tight encoding > really helps sometimes, and I'm not sure why > there hasn't been a merging of efforts. > > Fred > -- > Fred Ma, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Carleton University, Dept. of Electronics > 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario > Canada, K1S 5B6 > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To remove yourself from the list visit: > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
