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From: mrk@jax.org (Michael Kosowsky)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Running X over the net
Message-ID: <1991Mar6.180346.2159@jax.org>
Date: 6 Mar 91 18:03:46 GMT
Organization: The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME 04609
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How realistic is it to run X sessions across the
Internet?  If one proposed to give people access
to a resource by making a client available
on a machine near a network hub, should one's proposal
be dismissed out of hand?  For 5 simultaneous users? 100?

Are there good rules of thumb
for the traffic generated by average text applications (e.g.
xterm), and graphics intensive applications?  And
any heuristics for filling in: "to run
N {xterm, xmaze, ...} sessions, my client machine should
have X mbytes of RAM and should run at Y mips". 

Thanks.

-- Michael Kosowsky
   mrk@spretus.jax.org