Re: Xwin 1.14.2 (64 bit) extreme memory page faulting

["Larry Hall (Cygwin-X)" <reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com>]

On 10/3/2013 12:46 PM, Erik Soderquist wrote:
> <snip>
>> I just fired up a 64-bit Ubuntu VM I had laying around, installed firefox,
>> and tunneled it to cygwin64/X on my win7-64 machine. X isn't even visible in
>> the task manager when I sort descending by PF delta, CPU, or memory. This in
>> spite of having half a dozen tabs with content (including ads, an html5
>> game, and a youtube video playing).
>>
>> Opening a couple dozen more empty tabs brought PFdelta up to the ~7k range,
>> but the rate dropped back to ~0 as soon as the dust settled. Typing remains
>> fully responsive, and I'm officially out of ideas.
>>
>>
>> Ryan
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.

Any chance of finding or setting up an alternate host to test against?


-- 
Larry

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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
 >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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