[wplug] Odd X slowness

[Brian A. Seklecki]

On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 00:08, Vance Kochenderfer wrote:
> I'm having trouble tracking down a problem on my parent's system
> (Mandrake 10.1).  When running under one user's account on the
> system, X seems to run much more slowly.  This is most apparent
> when running an SDL game like Supertux.  When running Supertux on
> a "normal" account, top shows X using about 30% CPU and Supertux
> at about 30%.  Under the "slow" account, X uses 98% of CPU and
> Supertux less than 1%.

Two thoughts:

1) You've probably already checked this through troubleshooting, but I
recently saw a stock Mandrake 10.1 running multiple X servers bound to
different VTYs, allowing different users to have parallel X  sessions
open on the console.

2) Start looking at the differences between the accounts?  Group
membership?  Permissions on /dev/* ...perhaps ulimit(1), etc.


~BAS