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Re: Remote X



OTOH, can't you adjust the compression level of ssh so that performance becomes less of an issue?

On Oct 19, 2004, at 1:30 PM, Tim Cutts wrote:


On 19 Oct 2004, at 9:21 pm, Nick Phillips wrote:

ssh is so ubiquitous these days, I really don't know why anyone would not want to use it.

There are reasons, occasionally. Principally performance. For some graphically intensive X apps, especially those manipulating large bitmaps, the extra overhead of the SSH encryption can make them unusable even on fast networks.


Tim

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