Freezing monitors and quick refreshes in VNC

[Steve Mancour]

 James ''Wez'' Weatherall <jnw22@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
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Hello everyone,

I use VNC to display realtime data on about 10 monitors from a live feed
via the Internet. I am using Professional (including the German version
of Professional) and 98 on all of the systems. The program works fine
for the most part, however occasionally I get one of the monitors
freezing up for about 10 seconds. Lately, one of our machines does this
somewhat more frequently (i.e. 3 times in 2 hours). This machine uses
Professional in German, and is running no other programs. (Network is
10/100Mb using TCP/IP)

I have tried polling just the active window (which is all I really
need), and using VNC Hooks to tie the refresh rate to the timer. This
doesn't seem to help. Any suggestions?

Thanks for any help.

Steve in D|sseldorf
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Steve,

When you say "one of the monitors freezes up for about 10 seconds", do
you mean that updates to the client stop for a while?


Yes, that is exactly what I mean.  Either the client isn't updating, or the server isn't sending.  I think it is the former, because (and I am assuming this) the server simply does a broadcast to specific IP addresses, and all of the other machines receive quick refreshes.  One of the machines is a 166 Mhz Pentium, which has frozen only once.  The other (real problem) machine is a 500 Mhz Intel.

Thanks!

Steve




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