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- From: dmuntz@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Dan Muntz)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
- Subject: Re: Just general help, please...
- Keywords: X, Xwindows, 386, 486, unix, slip
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.175322.5912@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 17:53:22 GMT
- References: <C169oG.3rE@news2.cis.umn.edu> <1993Jan27.073712.8051@comperex.cx.OZ.AU>
- Sender: news@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Mr. News)
- Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor
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- In article <1993Jan27.073712.8051@comperex.cx.OZ.AU> howard@comperex.cx.oz.au (Andrew Howard) writes:
- >We do a lot of low bandwidth X here and generally find that the performance of SLIP
- >to be pretty bad with X. (about 3 minutes to open a window )
- >
-
- Well, you shouldn't be running slip over 300bps modems :-/
-
- It takes me 8 *seconds* to pop up an xterm over slip (pair of v.32bis, v.42
- bis modems: 14400 modem<->modem, 57600 interface). Times in the 2-10 second
- range cover most x client programs. v.32 (9600bps) w/v.42bis is also quite
- reasonable. Compression combined with a high interface speed is a big win
- for X/slip.
-
- The absolutely slowest program I could find (xcolors) took 1min 33sec over
- slip vs. 8sec over ethernet (roughly, since the source machines were
- different).
-
- -Dan
- dmuntz@eecs.umich.edu
-