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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 07:14:30 -0800
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
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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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<br><br><div><span class=3D"gmail_quote">On 2/22/06, <b class=3D"gmail_send=
ername">Russ Cox</b> &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:rsc@swtch.com">rsc@swtch.com</a>=
&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"border-left: 1=
px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"=
>
&gt; In my experience, most slowness comes from the<br>&gt; ping pong natur=
e of 9P on high latency connections.<br><br>I've found that many high laten=
cy connections are<br>really low bandwidth connections in disguise.<br>
Running drawterm or &quot;ssh -X unix-machine acme&quot;<br>is very slow fr=
om my apartment to MIT, but<br>ssh -XC unix-machine acme is zippy enough th=
at<br>I forget it's remote.<br><br>Russ<br><br></blockquote></div>I wonder =
if one could use Openssh port forwarding to some &quot;closer-by node&quot;=
 with the appropriate ports and compression, then drawterm to localhost on =
those ports and get a benefit automagically without touching drawterm sourc=
es then?
<br><br>Dave<br><br><br>

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