slow connection to X server

[Peter Harris]

On 2010-11-12 02:09, Han wrote:
> my question is: in what kind of condition the X server would send
> large amount of data to client even before the Window show up?

Wild guess: QueryFont on a large (unicode) font. Try using client side
fonts to avoid this (eg. "xterm -fa Courier -fs 10").

>  Is there any debug tools to decode the data?

Wireshark can decode core X11. Wireshark version 1.4 and later decode
extensions, too.

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