when linux was linux

[Gilboa Davara]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 8:28 AM, Erez D <erez0001 at gmail.com> wrote:
> i used to think that linux is a system that countrary to windows, can run
> multiple users with no problems
> then came the "modern" desktops
> ones that scans your disk so you could find what you want in an instant
> or do other 'windows-like' things
>
> so we found ourselves with 6 instances of nautiluis (we have 6 users) eating
> all the 4 cpus
> after searching the web and failing to solve the problem, i decided to move
> to a lighter desktop
> so we all switched to xfce4
> but now we have 6 xfdesktop processes eating the 4 cpus, with no solution to
> be found
>
> oh, when linux was linux and not trying to imitate windows ...
>
> btw: running CentOS 6.3

Very weird.
I've got a 3 year old Quad core AMD Phenom Fedora 19 machine running 3
instances of XFCE 4.10, and the CPU usage is rather slim. (Just
checked, with two semi idle sessions we have 2% CPU usage).
I've another 6 year old Fedora 19 Xeon workstation running 3 instances
of KDE 4.10, again, the CPU usage (across all 8 cores) is <10-20%.
(Though VNC really dislikes KDE's special effects)

Can you elaborate on the setup (E.g. are you using rdp/vnc/X),
hardware, networking, etc?

- Gilboa