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Re: xserver constantly scans local ports
- From: Alexander Gottwald <Alexander dot Gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com, Valery Khamenya <khamenya at gmail dot com>
- Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 14:13:33 +0100 (MET)
- Subject: Re: xserver constantly scans local ports
- References: <84fecab050318141888c14b9@mail.gmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Valery Khamenya wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I start Xserver after fresh cygwin installation, this brings xterm window
> and after few seconds xserver starts to scan constantly through my local ports.
>
> Q1. why ?
This is because of the select implementation in cygwin. It opens a port
whenever XWin calls select() (about every second). This was discussed many
times on this mailing list and in the cygwin mailing list.
> Q2. how could I make my xserver less "aggressive"?
Change the way how select() in cygwin works.
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