On Wednesday 24 May 2006 14:42, lerninlinux@comcast.net wrote:
This makes me wonder, what about remote, LOCAL machines (headless). Wouldn't remote X be faster in that scenario?
Thanks Randal
Actually, it depends on the application. Remote X as a protocol, it's huge, and has a lot of "round trips" built-in. This makes it highly sensitive to "Network Latency" (timming of the round trips). For example the old FWBuilder 1.x versions where notoriously bad over remote X. (Actually barely usable over a lan). Where as it was perfect via vnc. After years of "remoting" all around the net, I've settled on the following: - I allways setup SSH-Servers. - I allways setup Nx Servers to use SSH. - I Usually setup vnc (via XInetd) as sort of a backup. Within my lan, when I have something sort to do, I often use "ssh -X" but half of the time, I end up connecting with NX, or VNC anyway. It's not just for speed mind you, I also like the organizational aspect of having a window (titled user@machine) containing all of the applications running on that machine... Of Course I insist on having a full GUI, and root access on all my servers. And that is a questionable decision at best 8-) Jerry