On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 11:46 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 05:04, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > > After a long tedious trouble-shooting, the source of the problem was > > found. > > It seems that the on-board Intel GbE NIC on two machines were > > malfunctioning. > > Once we replaced them with external NICs, the VNC sessions stabilized. > > Thanks for posting the followup. Do you happen to know the test that > finally identified the problem NIC's to help anyone else diagnose it? > I started doing some heavy NFS and SMB transfers. Under NFS/UDP, I had way-too-many timeouts. And under SMB, the performance was lousy... After doing some (?) thinking I decided to try and new card, and bingo! everything went back to normal. > Also, since you were trying other options, do you still like vnc > better than Xwin -multiwindow and starting nautilus in one > window - or some other method? > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx > > As cygwin, well, I'm still having the same old problems. I assume that this is as a result of the Windows Antivirus/Firewall slowing things down. Gilboa
