[X2Go-User] Old Hardware

[venv21 at gmail.com]

Thank you very much! :) By the way: the thinclient is just for private use



2014-10-08 8:08 GMT+02:00 GZ Nianguan E.T.opensource at gznianguan.com <
opensource at gznianguan.com>:

> Yeah that's an old pice of... hardware..
>
> You'd probably want >1GB of RAM for a reasonable thin...
> The good news is that you can probably get some old laptop RAM on
> ebay... Not sure how much this old thing can handle but a 512mb or 1Gb
> should be ok (don't blame me if you buy something and it does not work).
>
> If I remember correctly the Via C7 processor should have some basic
> crypto acceleration and SSE2&SSE3  so with a bit extra RAM this thing
> may do ok.
>
> I  guess Firefox uses more "drawing instructions" (which are rendered on
> client side) while chrome just draws everything as a "picture" on the
> server side, which X2Go then has to compress and decompress.
>
> Being that this is really old, I'd hope your not using it in a business
> environment (end of life in 2009?!).
>
> You may want to play with the connection/compression settings..
> Try lower colour depth  and see if swapping between WAN and LAN setting
> makes any difference.... I've seen some older HW do better with 2M-jpeg
> or 256k-jpeg even... and WAN connection setting.
>
>
>
>
>
> On 10/07/2014 11:33 PM, venv21 at gmail.com
> wrote:
> > by the way, the thin client is used for browsing and I noticed that the
> > performance is much much better when I use Firefox instead of Chrome
> >
> > 2014-10-07 23:13 GMT+02:00
> > venv21 at gmail.com <mailto:venv21 at gmail.com>
> > <venv21 at gmail.com
> > <mailto:venv21 at gmail.com>>:
> >
> >     It's an Igel Winestra LX 4210 with - I was wrong in my first post -
> >     just 256 MB of RAM.
> >
> >     2014-10-07 22:50 GMT+02:00 GZ Nianguan
> >     E.T.opensource at gznianguan.com
> >     <mailto:E.T.opensource at gznianguan.com>
> >     <opensource at gznianguan.com
> >     <mailto:opensource at gznianguan.com>>:
> >
> >         Hi,
> >
> >         What brand and model is your hardware?
> >
> >
> >
> >         On 10/07/2014 08:12 PM,
> >         venv21 at gmail.com
> >         <mailto:venv21 at gmail.com>
> >         wrote:
> >         > Hi,
> >         >
> >         > I have a thin client with 1 GHz and 512 MB RAM and it connects
> >         to the
> >         > x2goserver via LAN (100 MBit/s). The performance isn't good.
> >         > With my notebook (quadcore, 8 GB RAM) I have a very very good
> >         performance,
> >         >
> >         > So is there an option to reduce the cpu usage on the client?
> >         >
> >         > Regards
> >         >
> >         >
> >
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