[UCLA-LUG] Evolution

[Frederick Lee]

On Wed, 03 May 2000 07:34:51 -0700, said "Todd A. Lyons" <todd@mrball.net>:
>Frederick Lee wrote:
>
>> However, running Netscape off a very fast machine, remote, over a 28.8kpbs
>> modem, when your home box is a P5/100 with only 16MB RAM, is far more tolerable
>> (and faster!) than trying to bring the beast up locally.
>
>From a DSL connection at my home to a DSL connection at a buddy's house,
>it takes about 3 minutes for Netscape just to come up through X
>forwarding.  Is that what you call tolerable?  I considered it a little
>beyond intolerable myself.  The amount of traffic that generates was
>kind of amazing to me.
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Downgrade your chip to a P5/100, pull out all but 16MB of RAM, set your X
server to a non-acclerated mode, and run your swap drives at a good ol' 2MB/s
sustained rate (PIO 2?).  Then you'll see that 3 minutes remote startup is far
more tolerable than 10 minutes local.

Also, nice little thing called lbxproxy, compressed X communication.  Helped
speed things up a bit.

(Maybe there was confusion over the fact that I was behind the 28.8 and running
Netscape off a remote PII/233?)

-Fred