[cw-discuss] Office2003 running on remote Xvnc causes extremely large X traffic

[Jerome R. Westrick]

On Thursday 18 October 2007 11:11:55 Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > > Any hints why there is such huge X traffic, and how to avoid it?
> >
> > [...]
> > The workaround would be to run the Windows applications on the same
> > machine as the VNC server (in addition to allowing faster communication
> > with the X server, it should also enable X's shared memory extensions
> > which should decrease the traffic a bit). We've found that this usually
> > works pretty well.
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> I'm aware that problem goes away if X server becomes local - either by
> running cxoffice apps on the main application server, or by using VNC
> server at the server that actually runs windows apps.
> [...]
> Could you please assist on how it could be done?
>
> Nikita
>

Nikita

Have you tried one of the X-Windows protocol accelarators?
There are several around, easiest would be to try FreeNX.
It might solve your problem, in addition to offering other solutions
to what ever you are doning...


Jerry