From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20573 invoked by alias); 3 Oct 2013 18:29:52 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 20558 invoked by uid 89); 3 Oct 2013 18:29:51 -0000 Received: from nm1-vm10.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com (HELO nm1-vm10.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com) (216.109.114.81) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 03 Oct 2013 18:29:51 +0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: nm1-vm10.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com Received: from [66.196.81.156] by nm1.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 03 Oct 2013 18:29:48 -0000 Received: from [98.138.84.174] by tm2.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 03 Oct 2013 18:29:48 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp108.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 03 Oct 2013 18:29:48 -0000 X-Yahoo-SMTP: uQK22MWswBCKBpZEmcLDxzBiNtxH7V0FvTGeZikrZyTgdEnV X-Rocket-Received: from ffortso4 (ostroffjh@64.252.0.28 with login) by smtp108.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 03 Oct 2013 11:29:48 -0700 PDT Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 18:29:00 -0000 From: Jack Subject: Re: Xwin 1.14.2 (64 bit) extreme memory page faulting To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com References: <524CA379.207@cs.utoronto.ca> <524D78AF.3040607@cs.utoronto.ca> <524D9AEB.7030507@cs.utoronto.ca> In-Reply-To: (from erik.soderquist@gmail.com on Thu Oct 3 12:46:27 2013) Message-Id: <1380824987.1265.8@ffortso4> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; DelSp=Yes; Format=Flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2013-10/txt/msg00011.txt.bz2 On 2013.10.03 12:46, Erik Soderquist wrote: > > > I just fired up a 64-bit Ubuntu VM I had laying around, installed=20=20 > firefox, > > and tunneled it to cygwin64/X on my win7-64 machine. X isn't even=20=20 > visible in > > the task manager when I sort descending by PF delta, CPU, or=20=20 > memory. This in > > spite of having half a dozen tabs with content (including ads, an=20=20 > html5 > > game, and a youtube video playing). > > > > Opening a couple dozen more empty tabs brought PFdelta up to the=20=20 > ~7k range, > > but the rate dropped back to ~0 as soon as the dust settled. Typing=20= =20 > remains > > fully responsive, and I'm officially out of ideas. > > > > > > Ryan >=20 > That is the kind of responsiveness I expect, and what other people > I've discussed this with experience, which is why I think it is > something unusual in my setup or environment... Unfortunately, I'm > currently unable to find it myself, and can reliably reproduce the > issue even in a virgin environment. >=20 > So far, the only common factors (that I see) across each of these has > been my Linux host, (CentOS 5.8 at present) and my various > tabs/accounts. However, I am at a complete loss as to even guess at > how these could affect page faulting on the X server. >=20 > For reference: on the Linux host, when the Windows host is > experiencing these page faults, the Linux host is reporting 20-30% CPU > usage overall, no swap usage. Similar, to but different from Larry's suggestion, can you install=20=20 Firefox on CentOS using the installer from Firefox itself, and not the=20=20 distro version? I can imagine it could be something about flags or=20=20 settings they used when compiling it. Jack -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/