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Re: [LUG] /usr/X11R6/bin/X

 

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 19:09:13 +0000
Keith Abraham wrote:

Running ps aux give the following process which is using up about 30% of
CPU time on my Debian system.

/usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp -auth

Any idea what this is and how to stop it hogging CPU usage?

Keith

That would be your X server... part of the GUI.

The "-nolisten tcp" means that it won't accept any incoming TCP connections, so it's 
only serving to the local machine (ie yours) using Unix sockets rather than network 
sockets... no-one else can connect their machine to your graphical session.

_man 1 Xserver_ has the following about "-auth":

specifies a file which contains a collection of authorization records used to 
authenticate access.  See also the xdm and Xsecurity manual pages.

So, my guess is that -auth means that the GUI login manager must be started.

Grant/
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