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RE: problems with XFree
- From: Stuart Adamson <stuart dot adamson at evolution dot net>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:13:37 +0100
- Subject: RE: problems with XFree
> 3) within the first few hours of usage, I ran a "find / -name
> abc -print"
> from the command-line, and my trusty Windows 2000 box
> restarted.
If that crashed your windows box then that sounds like a bug in
either Windows 2000 or base cygwin - rather than the Xfree86 port.
> but i'm still amazed at how easily my robust kernel,
> based on NT
> Technology, came down.
You amazed that it stayed up long enough for you to run the cygwin
installer? ;)
One thing to look at is memory usage. Cygwin is a bit hard on memory usage.
Could it be that your exhausting memory and that's killing everything?
> 5) it'd be nice if setup.exe showed the size (in bytes or
> megabytes, etc.)
>
> of each package (it's in setup.ini). on my 56 Kb/s modem,
> downloading a
> large, unnecessary file takes a painfully long time, but a small
> unnecessary file is not so bad.
setup.exe is a base cygwin thing as well. You'll need to talk to
cygwin@cygwin.com
for that.
> 11) also, what's all that /b stuff about in startxwin.bat?
> gotos, etc. but
> there is no /b ! (there is no spoon either ;-)
start /b <app name> is supposed to start the app in the background. This is
an NT only thing. However, I believe that we no longer need to use this as
XWin does this anyway. There used to be a bug where without this flag
server
logging was broken but that got fixed a couple of months ago.
Stuart