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 >