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. -- Fedora Core release Rawhide (Rawhide) - Linux 2.6.11-1.1185_FC4 loadavg: 1.04 1.23 1.57