Re: X taking lots of CPU

[Stephen Kuhn <skuhn telpacific com au>]

On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 17:32, Cannon, Andrew wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> We use a Red Hat 8 box to do production runs of a piece of software that
> produces a graphical output of it's progress. The Program is taking up 30%
> of the cpu but X is taking 65% of the cpu. This is impairing the calculation
> time. Is there any way to reduce this load on the cpu?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Andy

If you're using the KDM/GDM/XDM you will definitely suck more CPU time
down - but if you change to runlevel 3 and login via console and start
Xwindows with the "startx" command, you'll find that XWindows doesn't
eat up all that CPU...

Found that out the hard way...no wonder I never liked graphical
logins...

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