ckollars@sun.COM (Chuck Kollars - Sun BOS Mktg Eng Support) (12/05/89)
I'm looking for some VERY ROUGH rules of thumb for network bandwidth required by a remote X-window. As an example of how rough I mean, something like the following would be fine. -an X window running xterm uses twice as much bandwidth as an rlogin session using 'vi' -an X window running a fancy word processor on a remote system uses three times as much bandwidth as an rlogin session using 'vi' thanks! -chuck kollars ckollars@east.sun.com PS. I already know that X bandwidth requirements depend on many many variables (type of screen, size of window, user typing speed, memory in server, etc. etc. etc.). Nevertheless, my assignment is to provide some sort of guestimate. If I can get within a factor of 3, it will suit my purposes. (In fact, it's probably good enough if I can get within an order of magnitude.) If you don't have neatly wrapped "rules of thumb", how about sending me some "real world experiences".