slow paints despite fast hardware

Larry Hall (Cygwin X) reply-to-list-only-lh-x@cygwin.com
Sun Aug 27 02:04:00 GMT 2006


Phlip wrote:
> Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote:
> 
>> > Again, why should Linux->Win32 be slow when Linux->cloud->Linux
>> > is so fast?
> 
>> I don't know what you mean by "Linux->Win32" but Windows is not
>> Linux and neither is Cygwin.
> 
> I'm having trouble feeling motivated to continue reading your posts
> after such condescension. In context, it obviously meant this:
> 
> a Linux workstation -> an X client -> TCP/IP -> Ethernet -> a Win32
> workstation -> TCP/IP -> XWin.exe -> X-Windows server -> display
> hardware.
> 
> Do I have to, like, deconstruct each stack for you?
> 
> (Incidentally, the FAQ entry you indicated had trouble displaying
> correctly in Internet Explorer. And the page is too long. In my
> experience, IE gets # markers correct in long pages, compared to other
> browsers, so don't blame IE...)
> 
> I suspect you mean this entry:
> 
> "7.7. Cygwin/X has very poor performance. What's the reason?
> 
> "Most likely you have installed some kind of personal firewall..."
> 
> Well, besides I already told you that other network activity was fast,
> I have both Mandriva's and MS's built-in firewalls, and they are
> correctly tuned. When I turn them off, and the virus scanner, the
> problem remains.
> 
> You will not need to read my posts here anymore if you would reveal
> the names of the config files, and their setting lines, that tune the
> display hardware for XWin.exe. Then I would not need to Google for the
> word "slow", which is too broad a search.
> 

Clearly you're annoyed that someone (or in particular me) will not just
provide you with the information you want.  I've been trying to tell you
that you're proceeding from a false supposition and that, in fact, the
information you're looking for doesn't exist.  But I guess I've also made
an incorrect assumption.  I thought you were having a problem using
Cygwin-X and wanted to engage people on this list to try to find a
solution.  I realize now I was wrong.  My bad.  I apologize to others
on the list for extending this thread and adding to the volume in your
mail boxes.  It was clearly unnecessary.

Good luck to you, Phlip, in your pursuit of a solution to your problem.

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