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Date:      Mon, 16 Dec 2002 09:29:46 +1030
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rapha=EBl_Ding=E9?= <raphael.dinge@ohmforce.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: X over ethernet is too much slow...
Message-ID:  <20021215225946.GH97271@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <6BFE3574-1080-11D7-961E-00039312D14E@ohmforce.com>
References:  <6BFE3574-1080-11D7-961E-00039312D14E@ohmforce.com>

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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
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