From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 91817 invoked by alias); 30 Apr 2018 04:45:35 -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 91703 invoked by uid 89); 30 Apr 2018 04:45:30 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-spam-relays-external:sk:smtp-ou, H*RU:sk:smtp-ou, commercial, services X-HELO: smtp-out-no.shaw.ca Received: from smtp-out-no.shaw.ca (HELO smtp-out-no.shaw.ca) (64.59.134.12) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 30 Apr 2018 04:45:28 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([24.64.240.204]) by shaw.ca with ESMTP id D0gof4X0nvB5RD0gpfajjV; Sun, 29 Apr 2018 22:45:27 -0600 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.3 cv=PvS9kTE3 c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=MVEHjbUiAHxQW0jfcDq5EA==:117 a=MVEHjbUiAHxQW0jfcDq5EA==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=w_pzkKWiAAAA:8 a=q25pGMlgRk4xX98z4eYA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=ziluqhcnsOcA:10 a=sRI3_1zDfAgwuvI8zelB:22 Reply-To: Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca Subject: Re: Cygwin X11 Server slow performance To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <5d579671-213c-c742-05b2-b771a827b6f5@cygwin.com> From: Brian Inglis Message-ID: <8593bf68-d029-eddf-520b-b94565d66ff7@SystematicSw.ab.ca> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 04:45:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5d579671-213c-c742-05b2-b771a827b6f5@cygwin.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfPiTa5S8sSGRa9qL7mqRKVYsbhLqjzgSTU+f1NKJ8sJ/LfzcjRqkQBQQX94BY9Z8EjQCC0Nee6sB7m3ATjoV7V+nJYdtcy6Nf6VzWRFov2SjEG44PP1n IeVN7X3yKygyqsel8ww8qKLWLJzq9GugRlhaZK0BaxQMEWW086+pFSXnLLZ6K7HCgjNX2S7p8fGFNw== X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-04/txt/msg00363.txt.bz2 On 2018-04-29 20:58, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On 2018-04-29 21:52, Paul Sheer wrote: >> I am trying to use the Cygwin X11 Server on Windows 64-bit as follows: >> C:\cygwin64\bin>XWin.exe -ac -listen tcp >> (Note this is on a private LAN without Internet access.) >> The X Server renders perfectly well and my favorite applications do >> start up and run. >> However performance is extremely slow -- it is slightly too slow to be usable. >> For instance I tried some graphical text editors, and a [PageDown] >> press take 0.25 seconds to render: Whereas on a commercial X Server >> running side-by-side on the same Windows desktop renders in <0.03 >> seconds. >> I am a bit confused if this is intended this way: i.e. is this just a >> demonstration of the capabilities of CygWin, or is it actually being >> used by anyone? I ask because there are no reports of anyone finding >> the X Server slow, yet the software has been many years in release. > Cygwin/X is most definitely being used, and this might help: > https://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-shared-memory.html Running cygserver at system startup is definitely recommended any time you are running many Cygwin services or processes, as when using Xwin, or cron. I bumped all the thread counts in /etc/cygserver.conf by a factor of 4 for my process loads. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- 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