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Subject: Re: [9fans] Slow Drawterm
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 06:40:38 +0000
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> 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