Re: What Would Cause Poor Performance (Remmina) Over SSH?

[Gilbert Sullivan <whirlygig@comcast.net>]

On 02/17/2011 03:04 PM, Camaleón wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:33:08 -0500, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
>
> > I really like remmina, but I have run into an inconvenience. If I use
> > remmina directly on a local system the remote desktop sessions on
> > Windows clients are very responsive. But when I use an SSH -X session to
> > connect to my remote admin system and then launch remmina on that remote
> > admin system, the remote desktop sessions on Windows clients are very
> > slow (by comparison with tsclient sessions which were really snappy).
>
> (...)
>
> Have you tried by using compression for ssh x forwarding session?
>
> ssh -X -C user@host
>
> I guess you already tried by lowering all the resources for the client
> connection (screen resolution, color depth...).
>
> Greetings,

Use of compression had a discernible effect. To be honest I really 
didn't expect it to help. This is a pretty fast network. It's still 
slower than tsclient, but it's acceptable now. Without compression the 
screen drawing delays are really obnoxious.

I wonder if there really is that much difference in the amount of 
traffic passed by remmina (FreeRDP) vs. tsclient (rdesktop) over the SSH 
connection. I should do some reading. Maybe FreeRDP is using an 
implementation of the protocol that's more like version 6. I understand 
that rdesktop was sitting at version 5.

Thank you again, Camaleón.

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