How to speed up refresh for remote X11 displays via ssh

Dave Feustel dfeustel at mindspring.com
Thu Apr 23 00:28:38 UTC 2009


On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 02:00:00AM +0200, Andras Simon wrote:
> On 4/23/09, Dave Feustel <dfeustel at mindspring.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 01:15:44AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> >> Dave Feustel wrote:
> >> > I now have X11 via ssh working on F9, but refresh of the remote X11
> >> > window is extremely slow, even over a 1GB switch.  Is there a way to
> >> > speed up the refresh?
> >>
> >> Are you using the -C (compress) switch to ssh? If you aren't, try it.
> >>
> >>         Kevin Kofler
> >
> > Using the -C flag and invoking XMaple, it takes 1'38" to load the
> > initial screens. This over a 1G switch. The delay is repeated every time
> > the maple windows need to be repainted. The delay makes remote X11 way
> > too slow for XMaple.
> 
> Something must be deeply wrong there. Here it takes 25 secs for the
> main windows to get into a state where I can type in it. And that's
> through a not blazingly fast adsl + wireless, on a netbook.
> 
> Andras

Are you running XMaple 12 in your test, or some older version?




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