Today’s Testing With NX 1.5.0 And FreeNX 0.5.0 Not Favourable
Posted by Stuart Herbert @ 11:59 PM, Mon 20 Feb 06
Filed under: NX / FreeNX
3 Comments
I’ve been testing the weekend’s install of the opensource NX 1.5.0 components with FreeNX 0.5.0 over slow(ish) links (OpenVPN over ADSL), and I’m personally not happy with the results today. Running over faster connection (OpenVPN over 802.11g) is absolutely fine, but connecting to my home desktop from a wifi hotspot in Starbucks … no luck.
Attempting to connect to a suspended session results in the session getting killed. My guess at this stage is that FreeNX is killing the session’s controlling nxagent after a timeout period that’s too short, but I need to investigate futher. It could be that the timeout’s being exceeded because nxagent is actually crashing or terminating for some reason. Either way, the suspended session can’t be resumed, leaving a lot of desktop apps in limbo until they’re manually terminated or the box is rebooted. I don’t feel that’s good enough.
I’ll do some more digging tomorrow, and see if I can improve my understanding of what is going on and why.
3 Comments
February 21st, 2006 at 6:59 am
completely unrelated to your post, so feel free to ixnay this comment after you see it… the ampersant in your title seems to be breaking the RSS feeds on planet.gentoo.org. I have no idea if it’s a problem on your end or on theirs. Makes me wonder what else can be exploited there. cross-site scripting or some such.
June 22nd, 2006 at 7:04 pm
I’ve had speed problems using NX over OpenVPN. Try using it over plain SSH with a VPN tunnel and it will be fine. Looks like OpenVPN needs tweaked.
June 22nd, 2006 at 7:07 pm
Above should read ‘Try using it without a VPN tunnel’.
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