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- From: chris@wg.estec.esa.nl (Milquetoast)
- Subject: Server modifications to minimise network traffic
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.123551.5489@wg.estec.nl>
- Sender: news@wg.estec.nl
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- Organization: WG/Estec, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 12:35:51 GMT
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- I have a few questions about X network utilisation. These may be a bit
- naive, but please bear with me - this is an area of X that I've not really
- looked into before. I'm looking for pointers to books and on-line documents,
- as much as answers.
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- The scenario we have is a closed network with a number of X terminals or
- workstations used as X terminals, with custom applications being run on a
- number of fileservers. We need to be able to minimise network traffic. One
- way that has been suggested of doing this is to build the bitmaps into the
- server and then use calls to the server to update the screen, rather than
- having to transmit the bitmaps. There would only need to be a limited number
- of bitmaps and there are no restrictions on the amount of memory and cpu
- power we could use. So, my questions:
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- 1) Is this technically possible?
- 2) Is it desirable?
- 3) Is there any documentation or books that would point me in the right
- direction, or do I have to go straight to the source?
- 3) Are there other ways of minimising network traffic that we should also
- investigate?
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- Any help will be appreciated.
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- Thanks,
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-
- Chris
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