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
