Nathan Jennings wrote:
> On 4/6/2009 11:24 AM, Jeremy Linton wrote:
>
>>Jeff Morriss wrote:
>>
>>>Once Wireshark is up, is it usable [going to Gerald's suggestion]?
>>
>> Its a little lagy but usable. I wouldn't want to use it all day long, but its ok for intermittent use. My feeling is
>>that its slower than other things running on that machine over X (yast, xterm, emacs, etc). Those are all pretty usable.
>>In those applications the lag is there, but its not bothersome at all. The ping latencies are fairly fast
>
>
> This may not apply to you, but in my experience we've had slow rendering
> times due to our Microsoft Windows X servers not supporting anti-aliased
> font rendering. We worked around this in the past by disabling
> anti-aliased fonts in GTK.
Slow startup doesn't only apply to GTK. Motif apps are also noticably
slow to start over my ADSL2+ link. Snooping that traffic shows huge
amounts of chatter as the client queries the server for the fonts it
supports. LBX speeds things up (sometimes dramatically), but not all X
servers support it. Reducing the fonts the X servers supports speeds
things up too.
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