[X2go-dev] SSH and Performance

[Michael Hierweck]

Hi everybody,

we have been trying x2go for about a year now both on our thin clients
and as a remote access solution.

On our thin clients (both legacy Intel Pentium-III 1 GHz and modern
Intel Atom 330) it appears a lot of CPU power is consumed by ssh.
Especially while both animations and sounds are played the play back is
sometimes interrupted due to the lack of CPU performance.

So we temporarily switched back to plain remote X11 (without compression
and encryption) for our thin clients while sticking to x2go for remote
access.

Nevertheless x2go seem to be designed for both purposes.

I would like to ask if someone else can confirm this and if the is a
workaround. Maybe it will be possible to skip encryption for local use
in a future version in order to be able save CPU time and even energy.
(Of course x2go uses ssh for both security and port forwarding.)

There shouldn't be a complaint but a starting point to discuss this topic.

Michael

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