George N. White III wrote:
On Sat, 3 Sep 2005, Les Mikesell wrote:
evince, and other postscript/pdf display programs are extremely slow
over remote X displays. This is on a 10M/bit switched network.
10M isn't much to work with. Would it be practical to run NX or even
VNC on the remote side - or local apps that only need to access the
file remotely?
I have used 10Mbit/s and can tell you that upgrading to a 100Mbit/s
makes a big difference for some applications. Under normal
conditions, however, it shouldn't be "extremely slow". Make sure your
network is functioning properly. Some switches can't deliver the
rated thruput for more than a few ports. Systems that seem to be
working OK for low bandwidth applications but are slow for file
transfers and more demanding applications may have defective ethernet
cards or duplex mismatches. One misconfigured or ViSTA (Virises and
worms, Spy-ware, Trojans, and Ad-ware) -infested system can bog down a
network. I once encountered an ethernet card with visibly incinerated
components that still passed all the vendor-supplied diagnostics but
performed poorly on real data.
After trying to tackle a pre-ViSTA system that had "aurora", calling M$
to reactivate the OS, ViSTA sounds like a real treat. Your acronym
sounds on target.
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