From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 107399 invoked by alias); 16 Jan 2017 14:09:24 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 106159 invoked by uid 89); 16 Jan 2017 14:09:23 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Turney, H*RU:sk:mail.me, turney, H*RU:sk:host86- X-HELO: out2-smtp.messagingengine.com Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out2-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.26) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 16 Jan 2017 14:09:13 +0000 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9562E20DEA; Mon, 16 Jan 2017 09:09:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 16 Jan 2017 09:09:11 -0500 X-ME-Sender: Received: from [192.168.1.102] (host86-173-196-32.range86-173.btcentralplus.com [86.173.196.32]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 27E932443E; Mon, 16 Jan 2017 09:09:11 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: X11 becomes unresponsive with complex client programs References: <3dcb5e0d-45bd-cb01-ac46-1a9c36785108@pobox.com> Cc: David Arnstein To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Jon Turney Message-ID: <41a04977-999a-728b-1e0d-4dc40c634ac3@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 14:09:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3dcb5e0d-45bd-cb01-ac46-1a9c36785108@pobox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2017-01/txt/msg00191.txt.bz2 On 14/01/2017 01:38, David Arnstein wrote: > My cygwin installation can display simple X11 clients such as xterm. A > complex client such as git-cola, launched from a remote RedHat Linux > machine, will cause all X11 windows under cygwin to become unresponsive. > Windows Task Manager says "not responding." > > This problem occurs with recent releases of Cygwin/X11. The attached > cygcheck.out indicates the last X11 version that works well: 1.18-4.1. > All other cygwin packages are up to date. Thanks for reporting this problem. Unfortunately, I couldn't reproduce it. However, I suspect this may be caused by switching to the smart scheduler by default in xorg-server 1.19.0-1. So, the first thing I'd suggest you try is adding -dumbSched to the X server options to see if this makes a difference (e.g. 'startxwin -- -dumbSched' -- Jon Turney Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple