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