various

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:47:19 -0500, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 21:41 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:56:59 -0500, glenn wrote:
> > > The high CPU is due to gdm.  You can avoid this by starting in runlevel 
> > > 3 (or text mode) and then logging in in text mode.  Then start the X 
> > > display with
> > >      startx
> > > 
> > > Perf should be similiar to FC3 or a little better.
> > 
> > I've thought the kernel has [various] debugging features enabled, which
> > slow it down. Wrong assumption?
> 
> There's actually a nasty bug in the gdm package shipped with FC4t1
> whereby it generates thousands of syslog messages when you log in during
> a very short time. Repeatedly.

That has been covered before, is noticed easily and doesn't affect
run-level 3.

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