From: "David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Slow Drawterm
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 07:14:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e1162e60602230714n29042498lc1d1518d50573dc3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d41544034c2c5b9e0320e87eac993df8@swtch.com>
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On 2/22/06, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
>
> > In my experience, most slowness comes from the
> > ping pong nature of 9P on high latency connections.
>
> I've found that many high latency connections are
> really low bandwidth connections in disguise.
> Running drawterm or "ssh -X unix-machine acme"
> is very slow from my apartment to MIT, but
> ssh -XC unix-machine acme is zippy enough that
> I forget it's remote.
>
> Russ
>
> I wonder if one could use Openssh port forwarding to some "closer-by node"
with the appropriate ports and compression, then drawterm to localhost on
those ports and get a benefit automagically without touching drawterm
sources then?
Dave
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[not found] <000301c6382f$bef2cf40$14aaa8c0@utelsystems.local>
2006-02-23 8:17 ` "Nils O. Selåsdal"
2006-02-23 6:40 ` Russ Cox
2006-02-23 15:14 ` David Leimbach [this message]
2006-02-23 3:35 Fernan Bolando
2006-02-22 23:00 ` Russ Cox
2006-03-11 4:00 ` Fernan Bolando
2006-03-11 14:26 ` Russ Cox
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