How to speed up refresh for remote X11 displays via ssh
Dave Feustel
dfeustel at mindspring.com
Wed Apr 22 23:39:21 UTC 2009
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 01:15:44AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Dave Feustel wrote:
> > I now have X11 via ssh working on F9, but refresh of the remote X11
> > window is extremely slow, even over a 1GB switch. Is there a way to
> > speed up the refresh?
>
> Are you using the -C (compress) switch to ssh? If you aren't, try it.
>
> Kevin Kofler
Using the -C flag and invoking XMaple, it takes 1'38" to load the
initial screens. This over a 1G switch. The delay is repeated every time
the maple windows need to be repainted. The delay makes remote X11 way
too slow for XMaple.
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