From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32055 invoked by alias); 9 Jan 2004 15:54:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 31578 invoked from network); 9 Jan 2004 15:54:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO rwcrmhc11.comcast.net) (204.127.198.35) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 9 Jan 2004 15:54:11 -0000 Received: from 204.127.197.117 ([204.127.197.117]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with SMTP id <20040109155409013005d9ave>; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 15:54:09 +0000 Received: from [63.240.101.2] by 204.127.197.117; Fri, 09 Jan 2004 15:54:08 +0000 From: cforelle2@comcast.net To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Xfree86/cygwin and speed Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 15:54:00 -0000 Message-Id: <010920041554.13357.5232@comcast.net> X-Authenticated-Sender: Y2ZvcmVsbGUyQGNvbWNhc3QubmV0 X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg00176.txt.bz2 List-Id: Hello all, I've got a question about speeding up application performance when using Xfree86 and Cygwin. Here's my configuration: Linux box connected by 100 Mbps Ethernet to router. Windows machine connecting wirelessly at 11 Mbps (802.11b) to router. Cygwin with Xfree86 set up on Windows machine, X11 forwarding set up on Linux box. I connect from Windows machine to Linux box with Cygwin using ssh tunnelling. I can successfully run the Linux application remotely. All is pretty good. Trouble is, the application is The GIMP, and it is painfully slow on the Windows machine. Redrawing the image occurs in slow motion, and every time I move a dialog box, I've got to wait an eternity for the image to fill in. Here's my question: How can I speed this up? Or, rather, where's the bottleneck? -Is it the cygwin dll emulation, in which case I suppose there isn't anything to do? -Is it the 11Mbps wireless connection, in which case I'll think more deeply about shelling out for 802.11g equipment? -Is the Linux machine too slow? (It runs GIMP locally just fine.) -Is the Windows machine too slow? (It should be fast enough to run the GIMP just fine.) -Is it the fact that traffic is slowed down by encryption over the ssh tunnel? -Is there something else I can do, config wise, to try to liven things up? Any insight would be most appreciated. Thanks and regards, Charles.