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RE: High CPU usage with Cygwin-x11 under xp-x64
- From: "Bengt-Arne Fjellner" <bengt-arne dot fjellner at ltu dot se>
- To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:23:45 +0200
- Subject: RE: High CPU usage with Cygwin-x11 under xp-x64
- References: <4622DDB6.9060106@u.washington.edu>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Garrett Cooper
> Sent: den 16 april 2007 04:22
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: High CPU usage with Cygwin-x11 under xp-x64
>
> Hello,
> I have an issue with XP-64 where it consistently
> completely uses up one
> of my core's CPU resources after a period of time. This
> varies from 1-12
> hours from what I've seen, but it always occurs when I close
> all xterm
> windows, and the server is still running the in background. I
> can't kill
> the X11 server via the right click tray menu, but instead
> have to kill
> it via task manager.
>
> More information:
>
> System has the following specs:
> -Windows XP (x64) fully patched
> -Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 CPU
> -ATI Radeon x1650 Pro with latest drivers
> -4GB RAM
>
> Cygwin and xorg-x11 are fully up to date as of today, and I
> tried using
> both -multiwindow and -rootless with usr\X11R6\bin\startxwin.bat, but
> Cygwin-X11 showed the same behavior, and nearly froze my system.
>
> I wish I could attach a log of some kind, but apparently this
> version of
> X11 isn't setup to log to /var/log/Xorg.0.log automatically.
>
> Any help is much appreciated as I greatly prefer xterms over Cygwin
> running in dinky, lame DOS CMD windows.
>
Hi this is but a guess. Are you possibly running some firewall other
then windows standard? If so try unisnstalling it. Reboot and test. I
had a similar problem on one computer and traced it down to
Sunbelt/Kerio personal firewall.
Good Luck
--
Bengt-Arne Fjellner
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