Rogue Process

[Mike Burger]

X is the Xwindows system...the graphical desktop in which you're probably 
working.

If you don't want to work in a graphical environment, edit your 
/etc/inittab file, and change the initdefault line from 5 to 3, so that 
the next time you reboot, your console will come up in text mode and X 
won't run.  You can also, at any command prompt, while logged in as root, 
type "init 3" and the system will switch to runlevel 3 and kill X, 
automagically.

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 Andrew.Bridgeman at corusgroup.com wrote:

> I have been getting a Rogue process called X taking up 100% of the CPU on
> my Linux boxes i do not know what this is and whether it is important to
> the Operating system or not. Can  someone tell me what it is, whether i
> need it running, and how i stop it running automatically when my users are
> running jobs over night. My users are complaining that this process is
> slowing the jobs down that they run. Any help would be much appreciated.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Andrew Bridgeman
> IT Systems Engineer
> Corus Automotive
> IARC Building
> University of Warwick
> Coventry
> CV47AL
> Tel: +44 (0)2476 241262
> 
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