X Window System Network Performance [LWN.net]

Here is a white paper by Keith Packard and James Gettys on X Window System Network Performance. "Performance was an important issue in the development of X from the initial protocol design and continues to be important in modern application and extension development. That X is network transparent allows us to analyze the behavior of X from a perspective seldom possible in most systems. We passively monitor network packet flow to measure X application and server performance. The network simulation environment, the data capture tool and data analysis tools will be presented. Data from this analysis are used to show the performance impact of the Render extension, the limitations of the LBX extension and help identify specific application and toolkit performance problems. We believe this analysis technique can be usefully applied to other network protocols." (Found at Hack the Planet)

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Mlview proxy

Posted Apr 15, 2003 6:42 UTC (Tue) by hisdad (subscriber, #5375) [Link]

Some time ago, the Italian company, medialogic, worked on an X-compression proxy. The stated aim was to beat ICA.

This would be enormously valuable, but it seems the project has lapsed.
The site availability seems erratic also.

http://www.medialogic.it/projects/mlview/

The other thing X needs is a way of proxying out to the VERY MANY
rdp based winterms.

Regards

Dad

Mlview proxy

Posted Apr 15, 2003 17:58 UTC (Tue) by ber (subscriber, #2142) [Link]

Some time ago, the Italian company, medialogic, worked on an X-compression proxy [...] but it seems the project has lapsed.

The NX technology still seem to be actively developed, check www.nomachine.com
Supposetly the core libaries will be Free Software. Unfortunately they also offer proprietory server and client versions.

X Window System Network Performance

Posted Apr 15, 2003 16:06 UTC (Tue) by Baylink (guest, #755) [Link]

It was me, Wes. You're welcome. :-)
-- j