on Fri, Jun 14, 2002, Ron Johnson (ron.l.johnson@cox.net) wrote:
[Regarding X11 tunnelled over ssh]
> Over a local, switched fast ethernet connection, what kind of
> performance drain will I see tunneling through ssh? Both boxen are
> GHz+.
Depends on what you're doing.
For text-based apps, little noticeable delay.
For heavy graphics apps, but not real-time response (e.g.: Mozilla,
Abiword, other office applications), you'll note some lag.
Gaming and flash are going to be noteably impacted, probably unsuitably
so.
You can mitigate this by using blowfish (a fast cipher) and *disabling*
compression, which puts more overhead on the connection than it relieves
in network traffic, for a fast network.
Peace.
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