Do I have a performance problem?

[Willem Riede]

I am using cygwin-xfree to access a Linux PC running RedHat 9
from another PC running Windows 2000 Professional over a local
100Mb LAN.

The result is rather sluggish, it takes about a second to "paint"
each remotely displayed window.

I have also had Exceed installed on the W2K PC, and it paints
much faster (it causes other problems, so I don't want to use it).
That proves IMHO that it is not network induced slowness.

The W2K PC is a Iwill KA266-R 850MHz Athlon, 512MB PC1600 DDR,
ATI 8500DV AGP.

Should the display speed be higher? What tuning possibilities are
there?

Xdpyinfo follows below. If any other info can help, I'd be happy
to post it.

Thanks, Willem Riede.


name of display:    winnie.riede.org:0.0
version number:    11.0
vendor string:    The XFree86 Project, Inc
vendor release number:    40200000
XFree86 version: 4.2.0
maximum request size:  4194300 bytes
motion buffer size:  256
bitmap unit, bit order, padding:    32, LSBFirst, 32
image byte order:    LSBFirst
number of supported pixmap formats:    7
supported pixmap formats:
     depth 1, bits_per_pixel 1, scanline_pad 32
     depth 4, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32
     depth 8, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32
     depth 15, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32
     depth 16, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32
     depth 24, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32
     depth 32, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32
keycode range:    minimum 8, maximum 255
focus:  window 0xe0000e, revert to PointerRoot
number of extensions:    21
     BIG-REQUESTS
     DEC-XTRAP
     DOUBLE-BUFFER
     Extended-Visual-Information
     FontCache
     GLX
     LBX
     MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD
     RECORD
     RENDER
     SECURITY
     SGI-GLX
     SHAPE
     SYNC
     TOG-CUP
     XC-APPGROUP
     XC-MISC
     XFree86-Bigfont
     XKEYBOARD
     XTEST
     XVideo
default screen number:    0
number of screens:    1

screen #0:
   dimensions:    1280x1023 pixels (433x346 millimeters)
   resolution:    75x75 dots per inch
   depths (7):    16, 1, 4, 8, 15, 24, 32
   root window id:    0x36
   depth of root window:    16 planes
   number of colormaps:    minimum 1, maximum 1
   default colormap:    0x20
   default number of colormap cells:    64
   preallocated pixels:    black 0, white 65535
   options:    backing-store NO, save-unders NO
   largest cursor:    1280x1023
   current input event mask:    0xfa003f
     KeyPressMask             KeyReleaseMask           
ButtonPressMask              ButtonReleaseMask        EnterWindowMask          
LeaveWindowMask              StructureNotifyMask      SubstructureNotifyMask   
SubstructureRedirectMask     FocusChangeMask          PropertyChangeMask       
ColormapChangeMask         number of visuals:    2
   default visual id:  0x22
   visual:
     visual id:    0x22
     class:    TrueColor
     depth:    16 planes
     available colormap entries:    64 per subfield
     red, green, blue masks:    0xf800, 0x7e0, 0x1f
     significant bits in color specification:    6 bits
   visual:
     visual id:    0x23
     class:    TrueColor
     depth:    16 planes
     available colormap entries:    64 per subfield
     red, green, blue masks:    0xf800, 0x7e0, 0x1f
     significant bits in color specification:    6 bits