Vnc too slow?

Saqr Binghalib bgtech "at" pacbell.net
Tue, 09 Nov 1999 02:10:10 +0000


Thanks a lot! I downloaded and compiled the Unix sources and Vnc viewer runs  much
faster than the Java version. Although there is less an a second delay now. Its
better than before and at is very much acceptable.

Thanks again.
Saqr


Tim Senecal wrote:

> At 07:21 PM 11/6/1999 -0800, you wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> > I am running VncServer on windows98 machine 550 Mhz pentium III. with 128 MB
> >RAM. and viewing the display on a Solaris 7 x86 running on an Intel Pentium
> >166 Mhz 32 MB RAM. I use the java viewer.
>                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Get the source code and recompile the unix version for solaris.  the
> solaris binary is for sparc.  you have to get off the java viewer.  it is
> at least half as fast as the traditional compiled viewer for any given
> platform.  (which is actually fast for a jvm based applet).
>
> next, try different settings on the server.   different people use it
> differently, which is why the VNC guys gave you all the different "polling"
> methods.
>
> finally, I know you won't like this, but the windows server has "lesser"
> performance capability since it is not as intimately tied to its respective
> OS as the unix server is.  Hopefully future revs of the server will fix
> these performance penalties, however.
>
> tim
>
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