X, Network transparency and ssh

[Robert Brockway]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Robert Brockway wrote:

> Hi all.  During the talk last night a question arose about streaming all 
> of the graphical data to a thin client via ssh.  As noted last night 
> this can be

Of course I meant Tuesday night, at the meeting.

> very cpu intensive.  I'm running a test at the moment that demonstrates 
> this well.
>
> I'm currently running xawtv[1] over ssh to a thin client.  Xawtv is comsuming 
> 56% cpu constantly on an Athlon-800 (avon).  Nothing else is happening on

Well xawtv itself was consuming about 9% cpu constantly.  The rest of the 
time avon was idle.

> [1] tvtime refuses to start.  A bit of RTFM suggests that the tvtime author 
> doesn't support remote display with tvtime.  This is a bit of a shame.  I 
> think I'll have to bend his ear a bit :)

That's an Aussie saying for talking to him - I wasn't really going to bend 
his ear ;)

Rob

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