[Gllug] FreeNX vs VNC?

[James Courtier-Dutton]

2009/10/29 David Coles <david at disintegration.org>:
>
> On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, KJS wrote:
>
>> I am not concerned with them leaving their sessions hanging I am trying
>> to find a way to cut down on memory usage. But I don't see how in Unix
>> land as each user is going to have it's own X session and all it's
>> processes are going to be owned by the user, so I don't think it's going
>> to be possible. But I remember reading NX server did something magic to
>> reduce memory usage...
>
> Hi.
>
> I'm not a user of it but I seem to recall that the main performance
> related feature of NX is that it intelligently compresses the X protocol
> so that network utilisation is reduced to a fraction of that of a native
> (or naively compressed) X client connection.
>
> Could that be it?
>

Yes, the user experience from NX is much better than VNC for the same
bandwidth of link.
As with both, watching videos over either is not good.
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