Dimi Paun writes: > Folks, > > I am running Fedora 8 on 3 boxes, all connected via Gb Ethernet. > On two of the boxes (Intel Core 2 Quad @ 2.4GHz, 4 GB RAM) I've > enabled XDMCP and am logging in from the 3 via remote X. It has > been a rough experience: > * the default GDM screen does not have an option to invoke the > XDMCP chooser, despite the working in gdmsetup. This caused > great confusion until I figured that I needed to switch to > Happy Gnome login theme. > * performance is a bit sluggish, but bearable. However, I have > used in University (back in 97-98) old Sun boxes that were > doing the same over a much slower network, I was expecting > a lot more now, given all the hardware I've thrown at it. > > However, the deal break has been Eclipse. I need to run this app, > but doing so is almost impossible. Every time it opens _any_ > dialog (find, etc.) it locks hard for 10-20seconds at a time. > Same thing happens when you dismiss the dialog. Of course, I can > see no sign of CPU or network usage. > > WTH is going on?!? The app (Eclipse) works very well locally, why > would it behave in such a fashion on the remove X? The delays are > so big that I can't think it's doing anything, but rather that it's > blocked somewhere waiting for a timeout of sorts. If you ssh to the target machine and then run Eclipse, does that work better? Andrew. -- Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, UK Registered in England and Wales No. 3798903 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
