Brand new Dell 1425SC

[Bob McClure Jr]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 05:10:27PM -0700, steve wrote:
> I installed RHEL 4 then used up2date to make it current. When I
> restarted the process X is using 100% of the CPU. I ssh into and don't
> use the X windows server. What is going on?

I dunno.

> How do I kill the thing (can't use kill -9 as it won't work)????

For the long term, if you're not using X, then set it to come up to
runlevel 3:

http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#text_login

> -steve-
> 
> (BTW: Did anyone else notice that older servers running more slowly
> after the last big slew of update?)

Cheers,
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Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
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