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Hi,

I want to move my main server/workstation boxen out of the room (to save
space and reduce noise/heat), and talk to the workstation box over LAN
from a VNC terminal.

For the VNC terminal, I'm thinking of getting an el cheapo Pentium/AMD box
from Trademe, and sticking a minimal Debian with minimal X and vncclient
on it.

My question is - how fast does a box need to be, and how much memory does
it need, to deliver good VNC performance, where the Xvnc server is
1280x1024 @ 24-bit colour?

Would (say) an old P100 box with 32MB (or even 16MB) EDO RAM be too slow?

Thx in advance

EB

Evil Bastard wrote:
> My question is - how fast does a box need to be, and how much memory does
> it need, to deliver good VNC performance, where the Xvnc server is
> 1280x1024 @ 24-bit colour?
> Would (say) an old P100 box with 32MB (or even 16MB) EDO RAM be too slow?

yeah, too slow... but... as long as you have a fast network connection,
it is all good... then just buy to budget.

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On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 15:35:21 +1300, T.N.O. - Dave.net.nz wrote:

> Evil Bastard wrote:
>> My question is - how fast does a box need to be, and how much memory does
>> it need, to deliver good VNC performance, where the Xvnc server is
>> 1280x1024 @ 24-bit colour?
>> Would (say) an old P100 box with 32MB (or even 16MB) EDO RAM be too slow?
>
> yeah, too slow... but... as long as you have a fast network connection,
> it is all good... then just buy to budget.

I guess what I should ask is, given 1280x1024 res at 24-bit colour, over a
100mb/s ethernet lan, what's the minimum box spec to get good performance
in a dedicated vnc terminal?

Evil Bastard <postmaster@127.0.0.1> wrote in
newsan.2004.02.02.02.57.22.157262@127.0.0.1:

> On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 15:35:21 +1300, T.N.O. - Dave.net.nz wrote:
>
>> Evil Bastard wrote:
>>> My question is - how fast does a box need to be, and how much memory
>>> does it need, to deliver good VNC performance, where the Xvnc server
>>> is 1280x1024 @ 24-bit colour?
>>> Would (say) an old P100 box with 32MB (or even 16MB) EDO RAM be too
>>> slow?
>>
>> yeah, too slow... but... as long as you have a fast network
>> connection, it is all good... then just buy to budget.
>
> I guess what I should ask is, given 1280x1024 res at 24-bit colour,
> over a 100mb/s ethernet lan, what's the minimum box spec to get good
> performance in a dedicated vnc terminal?
>
Try redirecting the X-console. Probably better than VNC because no
encode/ decoding steps, less software.
I have not done it though.
Ciao, Dave

Dave Taylor wrote:
>>I guess what I should ask is, given 1280x1024 res at 24-bit colour,
>>over a 100mb/s ethernet lan, what's the minimum box spec to get good
>>performance in a dedicated vnc terminal?

> Try redirecting the X-console. Probably better than VNC because no
> encode/ decoding steps, less software.
> I have not done it though.

This, my old flat mate did... admitedly he redirected the X-console to
an XP machine(cant remember the name of the utils), but it was fast as,
and the fastest machine was a P3 550.

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Suddenly, Evil Bastard sprang forth and uttered these pithy words:
> My question is - how fast does a box need to be, and how much memory does
> it need, to deliver good VNC performance, where the Xvnc server is
> 1280x1024 @ 24-bit colour?
>
> Would (say) an old P100 box with 32MB (or even 16MB) EDO RAM be too slow?

I'd say your main issue would be the video card, in those days that was
a pretty high-end spec. Plus you would probably need more RAM to get
decent speed moving so much data around (4MB just for the screen).



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opposite expert. - Arthur C. Clarke

On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 15:57:22 +1300, Evil Bastard wrote:

> I guess what I should ask is, given 1280x1024 res at 24-bit colour, over a
> 100mb/s ethernet lan, what's the minimum box spec to get good performance
> in a dedicated vnc terminal?

Don't know if this helps much, but I'm using a PIII 800 as a vnc client
and it works fine. ... I just had it lying around.