vncviewer works much faster on WinNT machine than on Linux?

Shlomo Reches sreches "at" cisco.com
Thu, 09 Sep 1999 08:45:14 +0000


Akira Hatakeyama wrote:

> Greetings.
>
> Subject vncviewer works much faster on WinNT machine than on Linux?
>        Sep 8,  7:40pm, Shlomo Reches wrote:
> ] I have vncserver running on sun workstation which I connect by
> ] a vncviewer from machine at home. The PC at home has
> ] RedHat 6.0 and WinNT installed. I work through ISDN (128K)
> ] line with dxpc.
> ]
> ] The strange thing is that the performance on the WinNT OS is
> ] much better than on the Linux OS. To be more precise, it is near
> ] impossible to work under Linux and good enough under WinNT.
>
> What depth on your sun? and what encoding, pixel-format on
> RH and NT?  For slow connections, -depth 8 on server side and
> BGR233 on viewer side will works better.

Depth is 8-bit on the server. 32-bit on WinNT and 16-bit on Linux.
This is against logic doesn't it?
I'll try to play with bgr233 and other such options.

Thanks allot,
Shlomo.

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