In article <2kvt44$ajh at oak.oakland.edu>, dwomble at cmb.biosci.wayne.edu (David Womble) writes:
|> Which X-client software for PC or Mac works well with GCG vn 8 alphas?
|> Do multiple X-client connections strain CPU resources?
The following describes our experience with X in a rather unspecific way.
On OpenVMS, the load impacted by X sessions is much higher than on UNIX
due to the different properties and cost of a "process" creation and
handling under VMS vs. UNIX. If you are a large site, VMS needs to be
configured in the parameters to accept more than a given number of IP
sessions (under UCX), so the more memory you have the better. As the
memory consumption is cruical under UNIX as well, you will need to plan
for a full-fledged site with some caution. In particular, idle sessions
can easily be timed out on VMS as the process hierarchy is easy to
analyze, whereas UNIX idle processes deserve more careful handling.
We found that any X on Apple's local talk is rather slow. The screen size
of the X environment should require > 17 inch monitors. Mac's don't
behave too well with the single mouse button on general X applications.
Note that these issues might not be specific for GCG X sessions, it is a
more general concern on X.
Regards
Reinhard
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