This probably isn't helpful. But I'm just delighted to see another IceWM user so here's my 2 cents. My most modern machine is Intel Core Duo running 32 bit Opensuse. I prefer the 12.2 opensuse because khelpcenter still works, and doesn't on 12.3 to 13.2. Anyway I don't have a clue about SSH or VNC or compiz. But using some old Xforms (libforms) programs once built on opensuse 12.2 and a pentium4 single core, I have noticed great improvement in some timer graphics programs when using the mouse on a dual core CPU. The scheduler does seem to separate running programs from mouse events on separate cores. Using the mouse on a single core CPU definitely messed up timing and Xlib graphics. I run this on IceWM because it is almost directly Xlib rendering. Using the kde4 system monitor (ksysguard), processes and resources are properly displayed for both CPU cores. And I sure don't see any compiz running. It works on my IceWM desktop. Might be worth a try. 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. I'm not sure on that. This is my chip, and in > /proc/cpuinfo it comes up as having 7 cores: > > Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz > > What I'm really interested in is what compiz is doing for me. I'm > sure it is needed for the window manager on the console, but on this > machine I'm never in front of it, always logging in via SSH and using > VNC with IceWM. So what would happen if I just killed the compiz > process? Or maybe I could just restart it. But would that disrupt > the IceWM? I'm thinking IceWM doesn't use compiz, so it wouldn't be > affected. The desktop on on the console would probably be hosed, but > that isn't a problem for me. What do you think? > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >