Leif, Thank you for your patience with this issue.
Recently I believe I have discovered a simple code change that alleviates the excessive CPU usage related to the progress pulse bar.
Would you be able to test the following patch to see if this provides a performance improvement?
Thanks, Curtis Gedak
>From b45e4f0b07153a46566111e3601389e67ff031b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Curtis Gedak <ged...@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 19:22:48 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] Increase sleep time to decrease pulse bar update frequency Debian Bug 499193 - gparted: 100% cpu usage Debian Bug 519764 - gparted: Lots of animation makes use over SSH X-tunnel slow --- src/Dialog_Progress.cc | 2 +- src/Win_GParted.cc | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/Dialog_Progress.cc b/src/Dialog_Progress.cc index ecb7146..253a378 100644 --- a/src/Dialog_Progress.cc +++ b/src/Dialog_Progress.cc @@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ void Dialog_Progress::on_signal_show() while ( Gtk::Main::events_pending() ) Gtk::Main::iteration(); gdk_threads_leave(); - usleep( 10000 ) ; + usleep( 100000 ) ; gdk_threads_enter(); } diff --git a/src/Win_GParted.cc b/src/Win_GParted.cc index 5da4e6c..38a67d9 100644 --- a/src/Win_GParted.cc +++ b/src/Win_GParted.cc @@ -618,7 +618,7 @@ void Win_GParted::show_pulsebar( const Glib::ustring & status_message ) while ( Gtk::Main::events_pending() ) Gtk::Main::iteration(); gdk_threads_leave(); - usleep( 10000 ); + usleep( 100000 ); gdk_threads_enter(); Glib::ustring tmp_msg = gparted_core .get_thread_status_message() ; if ( tmp_msg != "" ) -- 1.7.4.1