On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:46:56AM +0100, Joost Witteveen wrote: > On 23/03/2008, Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying to tunnel an iceweasel instance via ssh from one > > of my boxes at my house to remember the name of an add-on i > > installed. > > > > The problem is that i create a ssh session (ssh -XC > > ssh.psychotik.info), login and run iceweasel at the bash > > prompt, which takes forever, but then finally *opens a local > > iceweasel!!!* > > I suppose that iceweasel -P uniqueprofilename would do what you want? > > Also, it's *much* faster use vnc (tunnel through ssh): on the remote > host, start: vnc4server on your localhost, start (and login to) ssh -L > 5900:server:5901 server > > and then on the localhost (different window) vncviewer localhost:5900 > > The 5901 portnumer is assuming the vncserver opens a X11 screen on :1. > When I start epiphany diretly over X11, it takes about 30 min to show > a page; when I do it using VNC as above, it takes seconds. I run iceweasel over ssh all the time, however, I don't have it installed locally so there's no local version to run. It may take a few seconds to give the initial window, but then it displays as fast as the box can swap. The network is 100 MB/s ethernet, the box I'm sitting at is a P-II with 64 MB ram, the box I'm sshing into to run iceweasel is an AMD Athlon64 with 1 GB ram. It doesn't even take 30 minutes to show a page when I ssh from my 486 with 32 MB ram so something is wrong there.
Why would VNC be faster if both are encrypted? Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
