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?