Re: Recommendations for laptop for travelling

anton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Anton Ertl) writes:

Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
anton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Anton Ertl) writes:

Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Stuff like gv and xpdf is also usable across my cable modem, although
slow on startup.

Either your cable modem works better than mine, or you're more
tolerant than I am...

Just tested gv: with antialiasing, changing pages takes a lot of
patience (but it's still bearable); without antialiasing, changing
pages works at a nice speed. Startup speed (until the first page is
displayed): 17s with, 9s without antialiasing.

In xpdf paging takes a lot of patience (with and without
antialiasing), but for viewing a specific page or two it's usable.

If these apps create a server-side pixmap and render into that,
further manipulation, such as scrolling, should require little
communication.

BTW, my impression is that a lot of the delays come from ssh, I also
notice that gv with antialiasing is quite slow over ssh on a LAN,
while it's snappy with a direct X connection across the same LAN.

SSH could be buffering X requests, thus causing slowdown.

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