Re: X taking lots of CPU

["nate" <redhat aphroland org>]

Cannon, Andrew said:
> 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?

best way is to get a better video card.

another way may be to export the display to another machine and
render the output there, that way the calculations are done on the
host and the "X" process that eats cpu is on the 2nd machine.

nate