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Re: Slow performance over VPN/cable modem
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 12:38:49 +0100 (MET)
- Subject: Re: Slow performance over VPN/cable modem
- References: <5.2.1.1.2.20031121222630.01ee51f8@mail.earthlink.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Bruce A. Hamilton wrote:
> XP Pro SP1, Pentium 2.66 GHz, 1 GB memory.
>
> I am running the latest cygwin including XFree86 4.3.0.
>
> Performance connecting to my workplace via VPN over cable modem is
> painfully slow, similar to what I used to see running X over dialup years
> ago. I'm running a local window manager fvwm2 then "ssh -X" to hosts at
> work via my local xterms.
Afair cable modems have a high latency.
> The app I'm most interested in is Veritas NetBackup 4.5 jnbSA, which is
> written in Java and not exactly speedy even at work, but at work we are
> talking a couple of seconds to refresh the screen, versus nearly a minute
> for the tiniest changes at home.
Does this application use Swing? If so then the slow performance is not a
problem of X11 but a design error of Java/Swing. All graphicsoperations in
Swing are localy drawn into a bitmap and the bitmap is then transferred to
the xserver. This is much more expensive than letting the xserver perform
the drawing operations.
> Thanks for any suggestions. I'm quite sure this in an X issue. Wasn't MIT
> supposed to be working on "low-bandwidth X" years ago?
They never thought of Java.
bye
ago
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