From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19704 invoked by alias); 2 Oct 2013 22:51:47 -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 19691 invoked by uid 89); 2 Oct 2013 22:51:46 -0000 Received: from bureau83.ns.utoronto.ca (HELO bureau83.ns.utoronto.ca) (128.100.132.183) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 02 Oct 2013 22:51:46 +0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_20 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: bureau83.ns.utoronto.ca Received: from [192.168.1.111] (69-196-168-62.dsl.teksavvy.com [69.196.168.62]) (authenticated bits=0) by bureau83.ns.utoronto.ca (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id r92MpfKw004604 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2013 18:51:42 -0400 Message-ID: <524CA379.207@cs.utoronto.ca> Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 22:51:00 -0000 From: Ryan Johnson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Xwin 1.14.2 (64 bit) extreme memory page faulting References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2013-10/txt/msg00001.txt.bz2 On 02/10/2013 2:50 PM, Erik Soderquist wrote: > I am currently using the X server on a Windows 7 64 bit host for > Firefox (in particular, occasional terminals too). While everything > works, I am experiencing very severe memory page faulting causing the > graphical interface to appear to hang for several seconds at a time, > and when not appearing hung, responsiveness is very painfully slow, > sometimes to the extent that I will type a paragraph and then sit back > and watch as the graphical interface slowly displays what I typed at a > rate of 1-2 characters per second. Is there really a Firefox build for cygwin/X ? Or are you tunneling from some other machine? > Testing with antivirus and firewall enabled/disabled did not affect > the results. (faq reference > http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#poor-performance found > during searches). If antivirus is a problem (as in BLODA), you probably need to uninstall, not just disable. They're usually too lazy to actually remove their hooks when "off" and just (try to) make the hooks become (mostly) no-ops instead. Not saying it's your problem, necessarily, just that merely disabling AV is not enough to rule it out. Also (not necessarily related to this particular problem), cygcheck reports a surprising selection of *nix-like utilities in c:\windows\bin. Whatever they are, they can't be helping. I doubt it's an X-server code issue. You tried it on too many machines with problems, and too many other people aren't spamming the list about this, which suggests it's something on your side (like BLODA). Further, the only cygwin bug I've known to cause lots of paging was plugged months ago (it had to do with sparse executable files and should have been irrelevant for this situation anyway). My advice: check out the cygwin FAQ about BLODA, uninstall anything listed there (or install a fresh VM image somewhere without those) and try again. If it's still a problem, somebody more familiar with X than me will have to take over... Ryan -- 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/