Rick, I like the way you think... On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 8:33 PM, Rick Engebretson <eng at pinenet.com> wrote: > Please let us know if you "hosed" your office desktop. I'm trying to learn > something about the XWindow system by reading the old 1992 X11R5 manual > book series and playing with XForms and looking at some available source > files. It might sound dumb to some here, but I find it interesting how the > original X system was designed to replace the RS232 console, and how the PC > of the time was single tasking so was considered an X Terminal at best. The > whole relationship of client applications, network invention, X Display > Server was very innovative. Sending constants over the network instead of > complete graphics or pointers to structures was an effort to simplify. It > all works beautifully to this day, and we certainly take it for granted. > > The VPN and 3D desktop is way outside my skills, but I still like learning > what is new. > > > Mike Miller wrote: > >> I decided that it probably wouldn't hose my IceWM if I killed compiz, so >> I killed it. I was right. It seems that the system respawned another >> compiz process immediately, but that process was using 0% CPU instead of >> 100% CPU. So that worked. >> >> It probably hosed the desktop in my office, but I didn't feel like going >> to the office to see. Maybe someday. I'm enjoying the remote VNC approach. >> >> Thanks for all the helpful comments! >> >> Mike >> >> >> On Mon, 5 Sep 2016, Andrew Lunn wrote: >> >> On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 02:35:01PM -0500, Mike Miller wrote: >>> >> >> It looks like compiz is running amok and using 100% CPU. That might mean >>>> that it is using 100% of one of eight threads, or maybe using all of one >>>> core. >>>> >>> >>> The kernel scheduler will try to keep it on one core. Migrating it from >>> one core to another is inefficient, in that it has hot memory in the L1 >>> cache which is local to a core. Moving it means it needs to rebuild that. >>> >>> http://www.compiz.org/ tells you more about what compiz is. >>> >>> It might be enough to log out your desktop session and log in again, so >>> it starts a new desktop. >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20160911/10cdbf01/attachment.html>