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... -- Tue Apr 1 18:05:01 EST 2003 18:05:01 up 11 days, 5:52, 3 users, load average: 0.10, 0.19, 0.24 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | ------------------------------------------------------------------ linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor ------------------------------------------------------------------ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** When you mistakenly plant at too high a population, every seed will grow. -- Planter's Paradox -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
