Re: Re: Please help me rate vnc, rdesktop, and freenx

[Frank Cox <theatre@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 09:56:31 -0800
Bill Campbell <centos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> an idle machine with nothing but a ``screen saver'' running
> seemed to have about 30% CPU utilization which dropped near zero
> as soon as some activity shut the screen saver down.

Some screensavers on Linux do the same thing.  However, it's my understanding
that they run at a low priority so if some other job needs the CPU for
something it just backs off and allows the other jobs to run.

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MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com
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