[CentOS] Enabling X on headless server via network
Nataraj
incoming-centos at rjl.comWed Jul 28 04:19:03 UTC 2010
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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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