Minor correction to what I've posted... I meant Remote Desktop Connection, not Share Desktop (trying to multitask tonight...) On Thursday 15 April 2004 20:26, Clayton wrote:
Has anyone spent any time playing with VNC and the KDE Share Desktop thing? A friend of mine who I recently convinced to try out Linux is encountering a minor annoyance with it. He's done the FTP install of SuSE9.0 and got TightVNC running. Things work OK, and he can control his Linux install from his main computer via the VNC console. The minor issues are:
1. The CPU load is very high even when it's sitting idle He's seeing at least 60% CPU load while it's sitting idle. The Load is roughly 30% for X and 30% for KPRD (the KDE Desktop share thing). Is it normal to have the CPU load this high with VNC?
2. The network traffic is very high. It gets to the point where it saturates his connection between the two machines (Linux client and WinNT host) A WinNT host to Win98 client as a comparison has almost zero network traffic when the client is sitting idle. Is the high network traffic a feature of the Linux implementation?
Googling on this gives all sorts of varying info, but nothing I've found that's too helpful. Any suggestions or comments?
C.