Re: Re: RDP performance issues

On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 15:56 +0200, Gunter Mintzel wrote:
> We have several setups with up to 35 clients (PII, PIII, AMD K6, PXES 0.9)
> and one Win2K3 server, P4 3 Ghz), everything works fine. Scrolling and
> moving objects with the mouse is not exactly fast, but fine for office
> work. The thin clients need do have at least 200-300 Mhz CPU power,

Nice to hear this. CPUs are all 400Mhz.


> otherwise scrolling becomes really slow indeed. Server hardware is not
> really that important unless you have many clients.

Just 5 at the moment.


> I would change a thin clients network card and the switch first, and make
> shure that there is no bottleneck in the LAN configuration. Then I would
> change the graphics card in one of the thin clients, probably the Xfree86
> drivers for the one you have now are weak. Then I would go back to an

This is what I also fear. I need to do some testing of the network
performance. Also switching videocard may be useful. On all the clients
there's a Matrox MGA200 AGP 8MB. I'm on X4. Which videocards / X version
are you using?


> "old" PXES version such as 0.6 or 0.9 and try that. If this does not help,
> try to connect to an ordinary Desktop PC running XP Professional.

I've just realized I'm still using 0.9 on those clients.


thanks


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