RE: X taking lots of CPU

["nate" <redhat aphroland org>]

Cannon, Andrew said:
> Stephen,
>
> Going to runlevel 3 is fine for me, but what about the other users on the
> network? Can they still log in to the system when it is in single user
> mode (am I right in thinking that runl level 3 is single user mode)?

runlevel 3 is multiuser w/o auto starting X(under redhat at least).

I do not agree with the other poster that starting X with 'startx'
will reduce CPU load(vs using a display manager). having been using
X11 since 1995 I have never seen/experienced/read/heard of such a thing.

runlevel 1 is single user mode, and by default network logins will
not be possible in single user mode.

nate