Dear Ross, I can sharpen this in the way that I use the gkrellm instances remotely over SSH connections. Also, other GTK+/GNOME3 applications executed remotely over SSH and displayed locally on my Enlightenment XOrg window manager session take a lot of high CPU% cycles.
Maybe this helps identify the bottle-neck. Sometimes it takes a low CPU% percentage at start right after booting into Englightenment, but having eight gkrellm instances (seven remotely via SSH) make take Enlightenment one full CPU core after having it run for a while. This does not happen when I don't run gkrellm. Enlightenment takes as low as 0,7-6% CPU% usage, even after having running Enlightenment for two days. Spurring on gkrellm, the same affect happens again. Changing the refresh time/rate of gkrellm in the gkrellm preferences does not change the effect. I hope this can be fixed! If no solution can be found (maybe it has to do with some library, I don't know) I will contact https://www.enlightenment.org/contact. With best wishes. Sincerely, Adrian Kieß On Wed, 15 Dec 2021 00:22:10 -0800 Ross Vandegrift <rvandegr...@debian.org> wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 01:29:34PM +0100, Adrian Immanuel Kiess wrote: > > Enlightenment from Debian/testing takes too much CPU cycles running > > instances > > of gkrellm or qmmp. > > > > I usually start up to eight instances of gkrellm for my virtual machines and > > starting those gkrellm > > processes inside a Enlightenment session, issues full load to one CPU core > > (Two > > gkrellm program instances are enough). The same applies to the program qmmp, > > which also issues high load to the machine. > > One gkrellm instance on my laptop causes ~6% enlightenment cpu + ~4% Xorg CPU > on my laptop. gkrellm is constantly updating the screen - every screen update > must be composited and rendered by enlightenment & X. I also tried under > gnome > on wayland. It caused about ~3% for each of 2 gnome processes - so about half > as much. > > gkrellm didn't let me start multiple instances. The manpage indicates that it > prevents that for performance reasons. > > You're probably best contacting the upstream developers for this issue. IRC, > email, etc info is at https://www.enlightenment.org/contact > > Ross -- With many greetings from Leipzig, Germany. Adrian Immanuel Kieß Gothaer Straße 34 D-04155 Leipzig 📪 — < adr...@kiess.onl > --SYSTEM-- echo "Your fortune cookie: " && /usr/games/fortune -c -s de > (zitate) % Das Seltenste, was ich gesehen: ein alter Tyrann. -- Thales von > Milet (650-560 v.Chr.) echo "g6.lan.dac uptime: " && /usr/bin/uptime > 11:23:11 up 22:20, 11 users, load average: 2,22, 2,52, 2,59
