[K12OSN] Found Something! re: CPU usage 4.1

[Eric Harrison]

On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 10:56, David Trask wrote:
> I found something that seems to be speeding us up a LOT today!  Yesterday
> I asked about how to stop icewmbg and icewmtray....well I found that in
> the IceWM session  in /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions  that it loads
> "icewm-session".  This essentially loads icewm plus all kinds
> enhancements......I simply wnet back to the old way of invoking
> icewm....remove the "icewm-session" and replace with "icewm".  I have yet
> to notice anything different within IceWM...except that everything is
> noticeably faster.  It freed up some CPU time as well....as that's 2
> processes for each user that are no longer running.  I still have the
> startup CPU usage issue where whenver we "mass start" a program it jumps
> into the 90's, BUT....yesterday when I had icewm-session
> running....loading OOwriter on 19 machines at once (using TeacherTool)
> took 90 seconds...today...same scenario....only took 60 seconds....only
> diff was I started icewm differently.  FYI.....YMMV
> 

Interesting. I don't use IceWM very often (and can't test it ATM), does
the behavior change if it is changed from icewm-session to icewm?

I've uploaded new testing icewm packages with icewm instead of
icewm-session:

ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/testing/RPMS/

-Eric
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