Mark Vojkovich writes: > On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Boris Reisig wrote: > > > Its seems that client/server applications are being used more and more now > > adays. XFree86 is excellent for a client/server setup on a local network > > but it seems that X11 can easily saturate the bandwidth with many clients. > > (Which can then start slowing down the entire network as more and more > > users become active). This is very evident when trying to connect to a > > remote X server over a dialup modem. It would be nice if X11 would > > compress its own data so that it doesn't easily saturate the entire > > network. Compression will also allow more users to work concurrently > > without having the slowdowns as it would without it (on a busy network). > > It's already supporting compression via the LBX extension. How > do you propose that things be improved? >
I don't think LBX is doing compression. It is doing some optimizations to prevent some round trips I believe, however it has never really reduced bandwidth for any real world application as far as I know. The real limiting factor on modem networs is not the required bandwidth but the latencies. I have just tested running mozilla accross a plip (!) network. Due to the low latencies this was even quite doable even though the bandwidth is extremely low. To get compression you should tunnel the X protocol thru ssh. This has the additional benefit that you get encryption on the data. Egbert. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
