Re: [coLinux-users] How to speed up coLinux

[Sam M. <pa...@gm...>]

First of all ditch TightVNC, you're not going to get decent
performance out of that and I'd suggest moving to an X server. Not
only will it improve network items, it will improve over all
performance.

Xming is one I use that doesn't have too many issues. You can either
use XDMCP to connect in or use PuTTY with X forwarding. Again, you're
not going to get full native speeds from any GUI app as VNC has its
own repaint events (since it sends bitmaps) and Xming does a large
amount of context switches but network transfers are far more
efficient.

Sam

On 22/04/07, Brendan Simon <Br...@br...> wrote:
> I'm using coLinux and finding the GUI performance painfully slow.  I'd
> like to find some ways to improve the performance, particularly as
> coLinux supposed to execute at "native" speeds.
>
> My configuration is as follows:
>
>     * 0.8.0-devel-20070302 (2.6.17-co-0.8.0)
>     * mem=512
>     * kernel=vmlinux
>     * mem=512
>     * cofs0=c:\
>     * root=/dev/cobd0
>     * ro
>     * eth0=slirp,00:D0:1f:99:88:99,tcp:22:22/tcp:5901:5901
>
>     * Debian Etch distro installed on a real ext3 hard disk partition
>       (ie. not on windows file)
>     * TightVNC with depth 24 and running a gnome session.
>
>     * Laptop, Pentium M, 2GHz, 2GB RAM.
>
>
> Is there any way to speed things up?
> Is SLIRP just terribly slow?
> How much difference would changing the vnc depth to 16 or 8 make?  I'd
> like to avoid that if possible :)
>
> Thanks, Brendan.
>
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