Bryan Irvine wrote: > I'm running a test openldap server on an imac 333Mhz. When I run things > from the console it's really really slow, but when I'm in X things are a lot > faster. For example: I just ran as a test (several times) the ldap command > "time slapcat", which basically dumps the contents of the DB to the screen. > When I run it in X it takes around 2.8 - 3 seconds, when run on the console > without X it takes about 7.5 minutes. > > This is OK because most of my time on this thing will be in X, and my > question is more of a curiosity than anything else. > > > --Bryan
A number of graphically-oriented systems are "faster" in X than in console mode. This includes sparc, sparc64, macppc, probably others. That's considered normal. :) Nick.