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 v1aca...@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. NX actually works under Cygwin, though it's a pain to compile (and unsupported I imagine). This document provides an introduction to getting the system to work: http://www.nomachine.com/documentation/building-components.php -- 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
