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FC4 - "x" process is a system hog

My FC4 box is getting pounded. "top" shows:

Tasks: 127 total, 4 running, 123 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 1.0% us, 53.7% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.5% id, 44.1% wa, 0.2% hi, 0.5% si
Mem: 1034572k total, 991692k used, 42880k free, 1660k buffers
Swap: 2097144k total, 199876k used, 1897268k free, 593184k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
2953 root 25 0 0 0 0 R 99.9 0.0 135:08.27 X
16905 postgres 15 0 36664 26m 25m S 5.0 2.6 0:38.87 postmaster
18745 postgres 15 0 36688 26m 25m R 3.0 2.6 0:01.00 postmaster
170 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 1.0 0.0 0:52.98 kswapd0
2109 root 15 0 8588 1504 1072 S 0.3 0.1 0:05.56 cupsd

I don't use "X" on this machine. Charater is fine. How do I kill this process and/or remove "X"? I have tried a kill -9 2953 and the process is still running.

Thanks.

noci

It is possible that X is started from the /etc/inittab, so killing it will just restart a new one.

In most installations (at least redhat) level 5 for init means a graphical environment needs to be started.
therefore X.
If you modify the /etc/inittab file and set the initdefault to 3 like this,

id:3:initdefault:

then no graphic environment should be started.
'telinit 3'
will set the runlevel back to three, interactively.

After editing the /etc/inittab file you can activate the new file with 'telinit Q'

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ssvl

if you dont want the X the you have to chage your runlevel to 3

vi /etc/inittab

id:5:initdefault: ( change the 5 to 3)

(id:3:initdefault:)

FC4 - &quot;x&quot; process is a system hog

FC4 - "x" process is a system hog