On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 1:56 PM, Brian Inglis wrote: > Assume you're using W7 Pro 64 as you're using Cygwin 64. > How big, fast, and full is your disk?
512GB SSD, tons of free space. > How much memory is installed/used/free in Resource Monitor? Laptop has 16GB installed. > Have you a lot of services started that you don't use? None that I did not have with the older laptop, which also ran Windows 7 (Enterprise instead of Pro). It's just the Xwin process that's taking constant CPU time, none of the others are (other than System Idle and a blip or two from other processes). > Are you seeing many pageins/pageouts? I turned on every column in Task Manager. Looking at just XWin.exe, *none* of the values in any column are changing while it's chewing up CPU time. > How much paging space is allocated? pagefile.sys is 4 GB: 11/10/2016 11:00 4,294,967,296 pagefile.sys > Try allocating 2*physical memory size as paging space. > If that helps, you may want to add more or faster memory if > you only have 4GB installed, or most of it is used, with > low free. I changed to system managed size, it went up to 16GB. Rebooted, but it made no difference. - Jim -- Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreis...@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us -- 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