VNC Sensitive to Disk Fragmentation

[B. Scott Smith]

Indeed, it's more likely your seeing the problem most XP users are 
seeing with Fast User Switching and/or Remote Desktop (RDP). The current 
version of VNC is not viable in these scenarios with Windows XP, and 
stops functioning.
Could this be the case?

James Weatherall wrote:

>Ross,
>
>Please be more specific - what do you mean when you say "VNC stops
>responding"?
>
>Disk fragmentation does not affect the performance of an application unless
>it needs to access files on the disk often, or the machine is heavily loaded
>and is making heavy use of the swapfile.  With most applications, VNC
>included, you might notice a slight delay in loading but once they are
>running disk fragmentation will not have any noticable affect on their
>performance.
>
>Regards,
>
>Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ross MacGillivray [mailto:ross_macgillivray "at" yahoo.ca] 
>Sent: 22 February 2005 19:19
>To: James Weatherall
>Subject: Re: VNC Sensitive to Disk Fragmentation
>
>
>First, I should be specific and I say I am using Windows XP for the client 
>and server.
>
>Basically, the VNC stops responding in the presence of moderate levels of 
>disk fragmentation.  This behavior seems to
>be visible on both the server side and the client side.
>
>Completion of a disk defragmentation seems to reduce/eliminate the problem 
>and VNC starts working again.
>
>Applications always slow down as a disk fragments, but VNC seems to hit a 
>threshold when it stop all together.
>
>/Ross
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