High CPU usage with Cygwin-x11 under xp-x64

[Garrett Cooper]

Garrett Cooper wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Garrett

Oh yes, I forgot to mention I have the nested and virtual frame buffer 
versions of xorg-server installed.
-Garrett

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