Thread: Slow Speed Over Remote X11 Session
Hi,<br /><br />pgAdmin3 cannot be used remotely through X11 forwarding over a relatively fast Internet connection.<br /><ol><li><ahref="http://www.math.umn.edu/systems_guide/putty_xwin32.html" target="_blank">http://www.math.umn.edu/systems_guide/putty_xwin32.html</a>and <a href="http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/"target="_blank">http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/</a><br /><li>Launchpgadmin3 from remote Linux machine (over Putty).<li>Connect to the database.<li>Click the SQL icon to open anew SQL window.<li>Start typing.</ol><p><b>Expected Results</b><p>The UI keeps up with my typing speed.<p><b>Actual Results</b><p>Typingin the SQL window using a remote X session (over a high-bandwidth Internet connection) is nearly impossible.The UI updates are less than 1 character per 3 seconds. (I can type a smidge over 120 wpm, so 0.3 cps is painfullyslow.)<br /><p><b>Workaround</b><ol><li>Open notepad (on local Windows machine).<li>Type a SQL statement into notepad.<li>Copythe SQL.<li>Paste into remote pgadmin SQL window.<br /></ol><p><b>Actual Results</b><p>The UI accepts thepasted content, nearly instantly, as expected.Kind regards.<br />
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Thangalin <thangalin@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > pgAdmin3 cannot be used remotely through X11 forwarding over a relatively > fast Internet connection. I've noticed this. It's the syntax highlighting. If you can build yourself a pgadmin without syntax highlighting, it should be a lot more usable. I meant to produce a patch with that, but forgot due to lots of RL work. This thread reminded me ;-)
On Mon, 2012-04-09 at 16:13 -0300, Claudio Freire wrote: > On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Thangalin <thangalin@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > pgAdmin3 cannot be used remotely through X11 forwarding over a relatively > > fast Internet connection. > > I've noticed this. > > It's the syntax highlighting. > If you can build yourself a pgadmin without syntax highlighting, it > should be a lot more usable. > > I meant to produce a patch with that, but forgot due to lots of RL > work. This thread reminded me ;-) > I would love to see a patch coming from this, with a nice option that allows one to enable/disable syntax highlighting. -- Guillaume http://blog.guillaume.lelarge.info http://www.dalibo.com