From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4520 invoked by alias); 3 Oct 2013 17:04:30 -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 4503 invoked by uid 89); 3 Oct 2013 17:04:29 -0000 Received: from vms173003pub.verizon.net (HELO vms173003pub.verizon.net) (206.46.173.3) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 03 Oct 2013 17:04:29 +0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: vms173003pub.verizon.net Received: from [192.168.1.231] ([unknown] [74.104.179.122]) by vms173003.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0MU30022QREYEF40@vms173003.mailsrvcs.net> for cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; Thu, 03 Oct 2013 12:04:15 -0500 (CDT) Message-id: <524DA38C.2010502@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 17:04:00 -0000 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin-X)" Reply-to: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Xwin 1.14.2 (64 bit) extreme memory page faulting References: <524CA379.207@cs.utoronto.ca> <524D78AF.3040607@cs.utoronto.ca> <524D9AEB.7030507@cs.utoronto.ca> In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2013-10/txt/msg00010.txt.bz2 On 10/3/2013 12:46 PM, Erik Soderquist wrote: > >> 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 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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/