AMD64 + Fedora Core 2 + X.org tree slowness

devnull@adc.idt.com devnull "at" adc.idt.com
Fri Feb 25 15:54:00 2005


>> Hello,
>>
>> After having used vnc4 on Solaris 8, Linux(Redhat 7.3
>> mostly), we decided to use the Xvnc that comes with FC2 that is installed
>> on our AMD64 boxes. I believe the version that comes std. is 4.04beta
>>
>> We are seeing from the "connection info" menu on the vncviewer that we max
>> out at about 200/300 Kbps, while we were able to get 1.5Mbps(this is
>> available b/w) before.
>
> What encoding are you using?  I'm getting very good results with ZRLE.

I just use the defauly setting of Auto-Select and here is what i see on my 
xterm(when connecting from a Linux m/c to Linux machine)

VNC viewer for X version 4.0 - built Jun 14 2004 11:52:10
Copyright (C) 2002-2004 RealVNC Ltd.
See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC.

Fri Feb 25 10:38:49 2005
  CConn:       connected to host pod port 5901
  CConnection: Server supports RFB protocol version 3.8
  CConnection: Using RFB protocol version 3.8

Fri Feb 25 10:38:53 2005
  TXImage:     Using default colormap and visual, TrueColor, depth 24.
  CConn:       Using pixel format depth 6 (8bpp) rgb222
  CConn:       Using ZRLE encoding
  CConn:       Throughput 20000 kbit/s - changing to hextile encoding
  CConn:       Throughput 20000 kbit/s - changing to full colour
  CConn:       Using pixel format depth 24 (32bpp) little-endian rgb888
  CConn:       Using hextile encoding


I will check on Windows and see if this makes a difference.

Thanks.