Jonathan, I sent an email do the ml with a test sheet that I am working on. It is still waiting for approval I guess. I'll mail it to you, I think you'll find it interesting.
I'm also going to send RPMs for 0.6 later today. Cheers Gustavo ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jonathan Buzzard" <jonat...@buzzard.me.uk> > To: "Gustavo Homem" <gust...@angulosolido.pt> > Cc: xrdp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Sent: Thursday, March 8, 2012 11:05:12 AM > Subject: Re: [Xrdp-devel] the route to smooth video using XRDP > > > On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 19:34 +0000, Jonathan Buzzard wrote: > > [SNIP] > > > > > I will try it again tomorrow when I am back in work as I also have > > at my > > disposal a dual Xeon at 3.00GHz and a dual Opteron 244 at 1.8GHz > > and see > > how they fair on video playback. Both of these boxes have 16GB of > > RAM > > and dual 1GbE networking. These two machines have 147GB 10k RPM > > SCSI > > RAID1 for the install, and everything is local. The beefier > > machine has > > 300GB 15kRPM SAS RAID1 for the install and again everything is > > local. > > > > My test video file is Big Bug Bunny at 480p in Ogg format, this is > good > because as it's free everyone can download it so we are all using the > same thing. For a video player I am using totem. > > I have three "console" servers that sit in separate server rooms that > are all running CentOS 5.7 64bit latest at the moment (will be > upgraded > to CentOS 5.8 over the weekend). The OS is running bare metal on the > server and everything is local. The specifications of the servers are > > 1. Dell PowerEdge 1950. CPU Xeon X5260 @3.33GHz, 16GB of RAM, disk > RAID1 > of 250GB 7200rpm SATA > > 2. IBM x336. CPU dual Xeon @3GHz with 2MB cache, 8GB of RAM, disk > RAID1 > of 147GB 10krpm SCSI. > > 3. Sun Fire V20z. CPU dual Opteron 244 @1.8GHz 1MB cache, 8GB of RAM, > disk RAID1 of 147GB 10krpm SCSI > > All three servers have dual 1GbE ethernet connections in an active > backup configuration (that should be changed to balance-alb which is > our > standard config). The network switches in the middle are a mix of > Cisco > 6500 to which the console servers are attached, which are in turn > connected to Cisco 4500 to which all the desktop machines are > connected. > My understanding is that the switch interlinks are 10Gb apart from > the > Sun Fire V20z which is currently has four 1GbE connections to the > core > (it is changing to 10Gbps soon to support a IBM Power p720 for TSM > backup). > > All three servers are using xrdp-0.5.0-0.6.20090811cvs.el5 RPMS from > the > EPEL repository with a x11rdp that I compiled myself. > > My test client is a stripped down PC, it has a Core2 6400 @2.13GHz > for > the CPU, 2GB of RAM and a single 500GB 7200rpm SATA disk that it > boots > from. The video card is a nVidia GeForce 7600GS and has a 24" LCD at > 1920x1200 and a 20" LCD at 1600x1200 attached. It is running CentOS 6 > latest in 32bit mode, with onboard Intel GbE running at 1Gb. I am > using > the rdesktop as the client version 1.6 (latest in CentOS 6). I also > have > FreeRDP but I only use that for connecting to Windows 2008 terminal > servers (rdesktop 1.6 has cursor/pointer issues). > > Basically running the Big Bugs Bunny video in a window at 1:1 works > fine > on all the servers if they are not doing anything else. The CPU is > maxed > out between totem, xrdp and x11rdp on the IBM and Sun. The Dell has > some > headroom for other stuff. > > Only the Dell can manage running a 2:1 without dropping any frames, > and > then I need to kill anything that is consuming CPU (aka Firefox). > > Historically when my client was on a 100Mbps connection, a 480p video > would drop frames. Not so as to make the video unwatchable, but > definitely noticeable. I don't run sound on any of this as it sound > is > an issue is a shared office. > > Clearly using MS-RDPEV extension would reduce the server and > bandwidth > requirements, but would hike the client CPU requirements. > > JAB. > > -- > Jonathan A. Buzzard Email: jonathan (at) > buzzard.me.uk > Fife, United Kingdom. > > > -- Angulo Sólido - Tecnologias de Informação http://angulosolido.pt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ xrdp-devel mailing list xrdp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xrdp-devel
