From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2988 invoked by alias); 2 Oct 2013 23:55:59 -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 2979 invoked by uid 89); 2 Oct 2013 23:55:59 -0000 Received: from mail-we0-f174.google.com (HELO mail-we0-f174.google.com) (74.125.82.174) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 02 Oct 2013 23:55:59 +0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,NO_RELAYS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-we0-f174.google.com Received: by mail-we0-f174.google.com with SMTP id q58so1844085wes.33 for ; Wed, 02 Oct 2013 16:55:55 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.194.240.197 with SMTP id wc5mr4651175wjc.23.1380758155182; Wed, 02 Oct 2013 16:55:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.234.73 with HTTP; Wed, 2 Oct 2013 16:55:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <524CA379.207@cs.utoronto.ca> References: <524CA379.207@cs.utoronto.ca> Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 23:55:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Xwin 1.14.2 (64 bit) extreme memory page faulting From: Erik Soderquist To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2013-10/txt/msg00002.txt.bz2 On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: > 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). > Is there really a Firefox build for cygwin/X ? Or are you tunneling from > some other machine? My apologies; Firefox is running on a CentOS host and I have tried both raw X and tunneled through ssh. I am currently tunneling though ssh as the raw X was a test only to see if it was a tunnel issue. > >> 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. > Unfortunately, uninstall is not an option for me. Corporate Policy prevents it on several levels. However, my disable of the A/V-firewall packages was by going into the Windows Services applets and disabling the services there and via a couple registry hacks and then rebooting so the A/V and firewall pieces could not load to start with. They are as ruled out as I can make them currently. I will look into the possibility of a VM to test without them entirely and see if i can still reproduce the issue. > 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. Those existed only on the current test machine. In theory, since they are later in the path in the cygwin environment, they should never be executed unless called by full path, but I do appreciate it being pointed out. I should have mentioned their existence on this machine to start with. > 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). The only (known) BLODA I have from that list is the McAfee A/V-firewall, which I can't remove, but I believe was completely disabled by the above described method. > 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 If I can get the authorization for a VM test without A/V, I will and the results will be posted here either way. Thank you for your time in looking at this. --- Erik -- 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/