[CLUE-Tech] memory usage across ssh -X

[David Anselmi]

Jason S. Friedman wrote:
> I'm SSHing from box 1 into box 2 and tunneling X windows through that connection.
> 
> Is the memory necessary to provide those nice graphics coming from box 1, or box 2, or both?

Just guessing, so someone prove me wrong...

When you start things up, including the ssh session but not any apps, 
all the memory for X is on box 1.  That is where your X server is that 
displays all the pretty stuff.

When you start an app on box 2, the majority of additional memory is 
used on box 2 because the X server was already running on box 1 and 
adding a connection to it should be pretty lightweight.

It may depend, perhaps, on your circumstance.  The LTSP project can run 
KDE on P-90s because the majority of memory/cpu use is on the server -- 
the X server on the terminal is lighter than KDE.

Did I leave enough abiguity to be right?

Dave