vnc client with many clients

Rich Lafferty rich "at" alcor.concordia.ca
Mon, 19 Jul 1999 00:57:23 +0000


Quoting Jay R. Ashworth (jra "at" baylink.com) from Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 03:12:30PM -0400:
> On Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 05:02:36PM -0400, Rich Lafferty wrote:
> > Quoting Thomas Olausson (thomas.olausson "at" midware.se) from Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 12:48:05PM -0400:
> > > I'm looking to hear from people who use this 
> > > in a larger scale. Where are the limits? Can it be run
> > > with 50 clients on a single server? If so, how do you
> > > manage all these sessions?
> > 
> > I'm not sure that this does what you think it does. If you had 50 
> > clients connected to a single server (my max has been three), then
> > all 50 would be fighting for control of the keyboard, mouse, etc. 
> 
> You live in a Windows world, don't you Rich.

No, I don't. A handful of unices, OpenVMS and MacOS here.
 
> It's perfectly possible to run multiple vncservers on a Unix box --
> although running 50 Xservers might be an, um, 'interesting load
> experiment'.

That's not a single server, then, is it? Besides, the confusion was
cleared up in a follow-up post *two days* ago. If you're going to
contribute signal-less not-quite-flames, at least do them with some
sense of timing.

  -r.

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