Headless YellowDog

[Brian McKee]

You can 'tune' VNC to run on slower links by choosing lower resolution, 
fewer colours,
and different compressions.  Often it's set up out of the box assuming 
you have
a fast LAN.  Try running vncserver --geometry 640x480 --depth 8  and 
then turn on all the
compression options in your client software too.  It'll be quite a bit 
faster,
but not as pretty.
As an aside - the 'Remote Desktop Viewer' that comes with the KDE 
package for YDL 3
is snappier than any of the OS X viewers I've tried.  Dunno why, but 
the 'slow link'
option there is very good.
HTH
Brian


On Friday, October 8, 2004, at 01:02  PM, Longman, Bill wrote:

>> Would VNC run noticeably faster if it were operating over a 100 BaseT
>> network and not 10 BaseT + 802.11b (VNCserver is on YDL on a 266 MHz
>> G3 and client is on a 400 MHz OS X G3 (yes, the more powerful machine
>> is the client ;-))?
>
> It would probably be faster. 802.11 is painfully slow. May as well go 
> back
> to 4Mbps AppleTalk.... Knowing VNC, though, it takes up lots of CPU 
> and it
> definitely likes network bandwidth. So the bottleneck could possibly 
> be the
> poor little G3's CPU. Sounds like reason enough for a new TiBook!
>
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