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

[John Wheaton]

A comment about FreeNX from the peanut gallery:

unlike VNC, FreeNX doesn't let you disconnect your session and reconnect
later.  FreeNX logs in and logs out -- that's it (unless I really missed an
option).


On 10/18/07, Jerome R. Westrick <jerry at westrick.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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