From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 15 14:59:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 272A037B401 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 14:59:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF4ED43ED8 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 14:59:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id CDA9F5194D; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 09:29:46 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 09:29:46 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rapha=EBl_Ding=E9?= Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X over ethernet is too much slow... Message-ID: <20021215225946.GH97271@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <6BFE3574-1080-11D7-961E-00039312D14E@ohmforce.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6BFE3574-1080-11D7-961E-00039312D14E@ohmforce.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 15 December 2002 at 23:56:18 +0100, Raphal Ding wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've the following configuration : > - an ASUS mini-pc with FreeBSD on it, 900 MHz, 256 MBytes, > connected on an ethernet local network. > - 2 PC running Windows with X server via cygwin (each with > 1,4GHz Athlon CPU, 256 MBytes RAM) > - All of them are connected with a 100 Mbits switch. > > This works great, but when there are pictures to load over the > network, it takes a really long time to do. For example if I > start rt2_demo (railroad tycoon 2 demo, available on ports), > picture takes about 2 seconds to load. This is a kind of extreme > test, since games usually contains nothing but pictures. > > I would be glad on any tips or hints to speed up those, any help > would be greatly appreciated. One common problem is when your NIC is set to half-duplex operation and everything else is set to full duplex. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message