X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Yahoo-SMTP: Uu383n6swBCEN1G9up0WSnxbvN8fCPmk Message-ID: <4C6C03AF.5040700@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:00:47 -0400 From: "Larry Hall \(Cygwin\)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: X-forwarding very very slow References: <4C6BFF90.6030404@idra.unipd.it> <4C6C0129.1050309@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4C6C0129.1050309@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 8/18/2010 11:50 AM, Daniel Colascione wrote: > On 8/18/10 8:43 AM, Alberto Canestrelli wrote: >> I have a problem with Cygwin. I am connecting from USA by ssh to the >> Hector supermachine in Edinburgh ( I write "startx" in Cygwin and then I >> use "ssh -Y v1acanes@login.hector.ac.uk" ). Everything works fine, the >> only problem is that the forwarding of the windows is very very slow. It >> takes sometimes also up to 5 minutes to open a new window. I am >> debugging a code with Totalview and it is a impossible to work. I am in >> contact with the Hector support and with their computer they tried to >> run Cygwin under windows and connecting by ssh (exactly like I am doing) >> and they say that x-forwarding is fast. > > The performance they're seeing probably has little to do with their > Cygwin version --- they're a lot closer, after all, so support's latency > is probably a lot lower. Agreed. I would point out, however, that the OPs Cygwin versions are pretty out-of-date as well. Though I'm not sure it will help in this particular matter, it's worth thinking about upgrading. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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