Thanks for the responses! I hadn't thought of font translation in the mix. Perhaps since both of my examples internally are RH 8, this isn't as much of a problem? How often does this occur? Once per session or every time a screen has to be refreshed?
I will try to do another experiment with your suggestions to see what the results are. Thanks again. BW > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 1:01 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Ross Vandegrift > Subject: Re: [Xpert]FW: Lots of IP traffic, no screen activity > > X is very sensitive to latency as well; we designed X for high speed > (of the day) campus scale networks. ISDN and dial up lines therefore > suffer both due to limited bandwidth and large latency, not a good > situation. > > Running Xft based applications (e.g. Gnome 2 with Xft and KDE 2.2 or > later with AA fonts turned on), may perform better, as one of the killers > is round trips for font discovery, which Xft/fontconfig makes a thing > of the past. Keith and I are working on getting some more recent > data of what is actually going on on the wire with the render protocol > changes for Usenix next summer (just got our first data today, as a matter > of fact). > > Mozilla/Netscape is a prime offender, enumerating just about all fonts > and retrieving metrics for them all; again, if you get the most recent > Mozilla beta test built with Xft support, this should be avoided. > - Jim Gettys > > -- > Jim Gettys > Cambridge Research Laboratory > HP Labs, Hewlett-Packard Company > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > Xpert mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
