Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932138AbWETG6e (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 May 2006 02:58:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932181AbWETG6e (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 May 2006 02:58:34 -0400 Received: from bsamwel.xs4all.nl ([82.92.179.183]:36572 "EHLO samwel.tk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932138AbWETG6e (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 May 2006 02:58:34 -0400 Message-ID: <446EBDB3.2050401@samwel.tk> Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 08:56:51 +0200 From: Bart Samwel User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Lang CC: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22D=F6hr=2C_Markus_ICC-H=22?= , "'Peter Gordon'" , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: replacing X Window System ! References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: bart@samwel.tk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on samwel.tk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1055 Lines: 27 David Lang wrote: > On Sat, 20 May 2006, "D?hr, Markus ICC-H" wrote: > >> Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 02:57:55 +0200 >> From: "\"D?hr, Markus ICC-H\"" >> Did you actually do that? Starting Firefox over a 6 Mbit VPN takes >> about 3 >> minutes on a FAST machine. That?s not acceptable - our users want >> (almost) >> immediate response to an application, to clicking and waiting 10 seconds >> until the app is doing something. > > this is due to the latency, not the speed (X by default requires many > round-trips to startup). There is an extention that greatly reduces the > number of round-trips nessasary, I'm willing to bet this will make a > huge difference for your startup. Unfortunantly I don't remember what > this is. I think it's called "lbxproxy". Cheers, Bart - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/