Re: SSH, X forwarding, and an aging Sun workstation

From: Jack Patteeuw (jjpatteeuw_at_nospam.net)
Date: 05/26/05

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    Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 09:33:30 GMT

    crozewski@gmail.com wrote:
    > As of late I've been very interested in using my, now quite dated,
    > SparcStation 5 running Debian Linux. While the memory installed is
    > quite adequate, (224MB) the processor is lacking (~90mhz). If I SSH
    > over to my much more powerful workstation with an AMD Athlon using X
    > forwarding and forward over all of the common programs I use, Firefox,
    > Gaim, Abiword, and the like, given my network throughput, would that be
    > significantly faster than running them on the SparcStation? My theory
    > stems from my guess that my AMD processor based workstation could
    > process information, send it out over the network, and the SparcStation
    > could process that information faster than it could process each
    > individual task on its own. Is that a fair guess? Should I install
    > these programs locally? Thanks for the input.

    Sounds like a solution instead of a problem ! Just ssh to the AMD box
    and be done with it.

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