On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: [ snip ]
: Nathan> It's faster to use a "UNIX domain socket" when all traffic is : Nathan> local as you avoid some of teh overhead of an IP stack. Why : Nathan> waste those milliseconds? : : Would you be willing to explain the technicalities behind that ? Sounds : like a neat `optimization'. BTW, is this a Debian-specific feature ? I : haven't seen this in RedHat. I can't claim to have intimate knowledge of the inner workings of the kernel code, but I seem to recall from APUE that there was a speed difference ... I may have misunderstood. I'll have to find my copy tomorrow. At any rate, I can't imagine any speed difference WOULD matter more than a few milliseconds ... there may be some security concerns ... : Now for a networked system, you'd have to change the DISPLAY env var : to allow remote X clients to display locally, right ? ... but you're going to use IP anyway :) I use ssh port-forwarding to tunnel my remote X session. It automatically sets DISPLAY for you (and it's already configured in Debian). -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
