Xwin 1.14.2 (64 bit) extreme memory page faulting

Ryan Johnson ryan.johnson@cs.utoronto.ca
Thu Oct 3 16:41:00 GMT 2013


On 03/10/2013 12:27 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
> On 03/10/2013 11:44 AM, Erik Soderquist wrote:
>> Installed a fresh VM with a Windows XP 64 bit ISO, sp2 already 
>> applied. VM has 512 MB ram, and the only package I installed after 
>> the OS was cygwin. Issue presents in this environment as soon as 
>> Firefox connects/starts. Page Faults Delta over 5,000 minimum anytime 
>> I'm doing anything in Firefox, including typing this message, usually 
>> over 10,000.
> I just fired up a 64-bit Ubuntu VM I had laying around, installed 
> firefox, and tunneled it to cygwin64/X on my win7-64 machine. X isn't 
> even visible in the task manager when I sort descending by PF delta, 
> CPU, or memory. This in spite of having half a dozen tabs with content 
> (including ads, an html5 game, and a youtube video playing).
>
> Opening a couple dozen more empty tabs brought PFdelta up to the ~7k 
> range, but the rate dropped back to ~0 as soon as the dust settled. 
> Typing remains fully responsive, and I'm officially out of ideas.
Huh. I have 1.14.3, not 1.14.2... have you tried upgrading just in case 
that's the issue?

Ryan


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