VNC performance

[Jeff Waugh]

On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 19:41 -0400, Chris Bozic wrote:
> Ah!  True!  I'm still getting used to Gnome 2.8  :)   I haven't used
> the integrated gnome desktop sharing yet but I hope it has much better
> performance than KDE's equivalent, krfb.  The poor performance of krfb
> is what led me to x11vnc.  Are people having good experiences with the
> integrated gnome remote desktop sharing?

It's integrated very nicely, but won't perform much better than krfb. At
the moment, RFB desktop sharing on X requires you to poll the entire
screen (and sometimes entire individual windows) to send updates, which
results in massive CPU usage on the server. With the DAMAGE extension in
the latest Xorg release, RFB implementations will no longer need to do
this. vino supports it already, but we're not shipping Xorg in Ubuntu
yet.

- Jeff

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