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Re: Xfree86/cygwin and speed
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 17:09:23 +0100 (MET)
- Subject: Re: Xfree86/cygwin and speed
- References: <010920041554.13357.5232@comcast.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 cforelle2@comcast.net wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've got a question about speeding up application performance when using Xfree86 and Cygwin. Here's my configuration:
>
> Linux box connected by 100 Mbps Ethernet to router.
> Windows machine connecting wirelessly at 11 Mbps (802.11b) to router.
>
> Cygwin with Xfree86 set up on Windows machine, X11 forwarding set up on Linux box. I connect from Windows machine to Linux box with Cygwin using ssh tunnelling. I can successfully run the Linux application remotely. All is pretty good.
>
> Trouble is, the application is The GIMP, and it is painfully slow on the Windows machine. Redrawing the image occurs in slow motion, and every time I move a dialog box, I've got to wait an eternity for the image to fill in.
>
> Here's my question: How can I speed this up? Or, rather, where's the bottleneck?
>
> -Is it the 11Mbps wireless connection, in which case I'll think more deeply about shelling out for 802.11g equipment?
>
> Any insight would be most appreciated.
It is mainly the slow wireless lan connection. X11 must transport a lot of
image data and this is always a pain on slow (<100 MBit) connections.
Try connecting the windows machine with cable and compare the results.
bye
ago
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