Re: cygwin/x symantec antivirus conflict (fixed in snapshot?)

2004-10-14 Thread Owen Rees 
--On 11 October 2004 00:06 -0400 Christopher Faylor 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

So, I'd appreciate reports on the latest snapshot.  Does it fix any
problems?  Cause any problems?  No change?
I have XP Pro and Symantec AV - the 20041010 snapshot fixes the slowness I 
was having with emacs/X locally and X forwarded over SSH, and with no 
problems observed so far. The severe performance problems appeared some 
time in August IIRC, and my first impression is that the performance is now 
better than before the problems.

Regards,
Owen Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK
tel: +44 117 312 9439 fax: +44 117 312 9153

Re: cygwin/x symantec antivirus conflict (fixed in snapshot?)

2004-10-12 Thread Jack Tanner 
Christopher Faylor wrote:
For those who haven't been following along at home, it looks like a
change I just made to select() may solve the dreaded slows down to a
crawl with Symantec AntiVirus problem.
This may also improve the performance of things that use sockets
slightly.
So, I'd appreciate reports on the latest snapshot.  Does it fix any
problems?  Cause any problems?  No change?
Wow! Using the 2004-10-10 snapshot, I'm experiencing an ubelievable 
speed improvement. The typing delay as well as the remote X apps drawing 
delays are gone.

In addition, I confirm that openssh with X forwarding and Cygwin/X are 
both functioning as they should.

cgf and Philip, thank you immensely.

Re: cygwin/x symantec antivirus conflict (fixed in snapshot?)

2004-10-10 Thread Christopher Faylor 
On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 11:33:00PM -0400, Philip Gladstone wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
Ok.  I've changed the algorithm in select.  It only opens a DGRAM
socket now, one time per thread.  It uses this to terminate the socket
thread, if necessary.  This socket is never closed until the thread
terminates.

It sounds like this would more or less fix the problem that you're
seeing.  Would you mind trying a new snapshot?

http://cygwin.com/snapshots/

This fixes it for me! Thanks immensely.

That's good news!  Thanks for the fast feedback.

I've cc'ed the cygwin mailing list since this has been a long standing
problem.

For those who haven't been following along at home, it looks like a
change I just made to select() may solve the dreaded slows down to a
crawl with Symantec AntiVirus problem.

This may also improve the performance of things that use sockets
slightly.

So, I'd appreciate reports on the latest snapshot.  Does it fix any
problems?  Cause any problems?  No change?

In this one case, I'd like to hear me toos since the change was to a
fundamental part of cygwin and it is in socket code, which has proved to
be problematic.  So, I'd like to know if things still work on Windows 9x
and all flavors of NT.

http://cygwin.com/snapshots/

Things would be, openssh, telnet, ftp, rsync, etc.  Anything which
uses sockets or communicates via TCP/IP.

I've reset the reply-to for this message to the cygwin mailing list, so
if there is further Cygwin/X discussion necessary, please make sure that
it goes to the cygwin-xfree mailing list.

cgf