Re: [CentOS] slow GUI

On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 12:19, Jay Leafey wrote:

Just out of curiosity, would NX be an option here? I've been pretty happy with running the NX client on XP boxes and NXserver/FreeNX on our development server (Dual P4 Xeon 3.2 GHz, 4 GB RAM) but that's not comparable to the box in question. I have used NX to run an XFCE desktop remotely on a less robust system (PIII 800, 128 MB, I think) and it was usable.

I'd expect NX to be more of a load on the server than running X on it's console. It basically has to keep a whole screen image on the server and do computations about the fastest way to send changes to the client. That's great when bandwidth or network latency is an issue - not so great when your problem is server ram or cpu.