slow evince and remote X

[Jim Cornette]

George N. White III wrote:

> On Sat, 3 Sep 2005, Les Mikesell wrote:
>
>>>>> evince, and other postscript/pdf display programs are extremely slow
>>>>> over remote X displays. This is on a 10M/bit switched network.
>>>>
>>
>> 10M isn't much to work with.  Would it be practical to run NX or even
>> VNC on the remote side - or local apps that only need to access the
>> file remotely?
>
>
> I have used 10Mbit/s and can tell you that upgrading to a 100Mbit/s 
> makes a big difference for some applications.  Under normal 
> conditions, however, it shouldn't be "extremely slow".  Make sure your 
> network is functioning properly.  Some switches can't deliver the 
> rated thruput for more than a few ports.  Systems that seem to be 
> working OK for low bandwidth applications but are slow for file 
> transfers and more demanding applications may have defective ethernet 
> cards or duplex mismatches.  One misconfigured or ViSTA (Virises and 
> worms, Spy-ware, Trojans, and Ad-ware) -infested system can bog down a 
> network.  I once encountered an ethernet card with visibly incinerated 
> components that still passed all the vendor-supplied diagnostics but 
> performed poorly on real data.
>
After  trying to tackle a pre-ViSTA system that had "aurora", calling M$ 
to reactivate the OS, ViSTA sounds like a real treat. Your acronym 
sounds on target.

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