number of clients for WinVNC

[Brandon Ibach]

Quoting Greg Breland <gbreland "at" healthtech.net>:
> http://www.workspot.com  uses VNC to provide a Linux desktop for free over
> the web.  I don't know how much they have modified vnc to achieve this, but
> I opened a bash session and started a vnc session by hand, and it started up
> as #89.  This leads me to believe that there were at least 89 VNC sessions
> running on this computer, if not more.  I also checked out the hardware by
> reading dmesg.  It is a celeron 400 with 512K of RAM and a 10gig IDE hard
> drive.  It has 2 3com 3c905tx NICS
> 
   Wow... all that on just 512K of RAM?  ;)

> Guess VNC can scale better than their creator thought. :)
> 
   Not quite.... Wez was referring to the number of clients that can
simultaneously connect to the same instance of WinVNC.  You're talking
about Xvnc, for starters, and besides, each of those 89 clients are
connecting to a different instance of Xvnc.  Theoretically, most
applications will scale quite a ways if you're just running more and
more copies on an adequately equipped system. :)
   On another note, though, the system was probably assigning session
numbers sequentially from a pool, and you just happened to get number
89, which doesn't say anything about how many others were on at the
time.  *shrug*

-Brandon :)

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