[CentOS] Enabling X on headless server via network
Nataraj
incoming-centos at rjl.com
Wed Jul 28 04:19:03 UTC 2010
Stephen Harris wrote:
> Even another ISP may not help so much. I have Verizon FIOS and am based on
> the East Coast. There's a 92ms delay to reach my linode, in Fremont.
> Any message the X client sends to the server and then waits for a reply would
> have approx 200ms round trip time. I doesn't take long before these message
> delays add up to a real long delay.
>
> Even my local East Coast Panix v-colo has a 15ms delay; that's a lot smaller
> but it still adds to the time it takes to open an application; especially
> one as complicated as firefox which may make thousands of requests.
>
> Hence FreeNX which, effectively, runs an X server on your remote machine
> and sends screen data back to your local machine. In this case the
> round trip times are massively reduced to effectively "local machine"
> speeds.
>
>
Are there any advantages to running FreeNX over vncserver? Does it
perform better?
Nataraj
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