I just saw Christopher's posting re my posting of 12 Nov, explaining that indeed this is a Cygwin-specific problem.
Lester +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Alexander: I believe the problem to be with the new xorg files, but there are quite a few and I don't have time to reinstall them all. I assume I'll just wait until the next update, but I hope the maintainers will at least keep this potential problem in mind. I have this CPU problem under xterm or rxvt, not only with dired, but also with ispell under mutt in these windows. I do not have these problems at all (using dired or ispell under mutt) under the standard Cygwin console window (no xorg depdendence). I note that dired using ncurses, ans perhaos ispell under mutt might too? Could there be some kind of new conflict with xorg utiltiies? I have all my "Curr" Cygwin files from mirrors.rcn.net up to date (omitting only "setup" -- which always seems to revert to Skip when downloaded -- and "gcc-testsuite"). Thanks for the info on glxgears. Lester +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Lester Ingber wrote: > Yes, XWin_GL seems to run OK, though I have not seen any dramatic > speedup yet. glxgears shows the fps and has a dramatic speedup. > It is likely that part of this may be due to memory problems I seem to be > having in the latest xorg downloads, with XWin and now also with XWin_GL. > (I only seem to have these problems in xterm and rxvt, not in a Cygwin > console window.) > > `dired` (below) freezes and other processes i other xterm windows bomb: > > 19:25:05 @lester:~% top > C:\cygwin\bin\tcsh.exe (472): *** fork: can't reserve memory for stack > 0x30000 - 0x230000, Win32 error 487 > 6 [main] -tcsh 2808 sync_with_child: child 472(0x67C) died before > initialization with status code 0x1 > 3423 [main] -tcsh 2808 sync_with_child: *** child state waiting for longjmp > No more processes. Have you tried downgrading cygwin? Are the problems still present? bye ago -- Prof. Lester Ingber [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ingber.com www.alumni.caltech.edu/~ingber