[Gllug] FreeNX vs VNC?

[David Coles]

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?

--
David

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