On Sat, 7 Apr 2012 12:02:18 -0700 Marc MERLIN <[email protected]> said:
that setup just changed framerate and wallpaper really. if e is idle - ie you aren't moving windows around, resizing things, it isn't animating stuff (bouncy icons or what not) it should be pretty close to dead idle. eg: Top causes for wakeups: 39.2% ( 70.5) [ehci_hcd:usb1, ehci_hcd:usb2] <interrupt> 30.5% ( 55.0) USB device 2-1.4.1.1 : Flash Card Reader (Generic) 11.6% ( 20.9) USB device 2-1.4.1.3 : SHW-M110S (Samsung Electronics) 4.2% ( 7.5) kworker/0:0 3.5% ( 6.3) [kernel scheduler] Load balancing tick 3.0% ( 5.5) kworker/0:1 1.2% ( 2.2) mysqld 1.1% ( 2.0) enlightenment 1.1% ( 1.9) [nvidia] <interrupt> so enlightenment is pretty much not a worry. this is with compositing and everything. not a laptop, so no battery module loaded here. it's using 0% cpu. you'll have to figure it out there, but all i can say is that e wakes up when it is asked to by some bit of code (timer, animation, polling) or by an external factor (input events). you may find out more by stracing, or by sheer elimination (kill apps, unload modules, disable/remove things until usage goes down). > I remember installing an older E17 which asked me at setup time if I set > installing on a low power device or a laptpo. > > When I installed the newer e17, I didn't get that question and I have a > blng theme (A-BlingBlack). > > Powertop currently says for my W500 thinkpad: > > The battery reports a discharge rate of 14.7 W > > Summary: 312.3 wakeups/second, 0.0 GPU ops/second and 0.0 VFS ops/sec > > Power est. Usage Events/s Category Description > 4.30 W 11.7 ms/s 107.6 Process /usr/bin/X :0 vt7 -br > -no 4.04 W 63.8 ms/s 101.2 > Process /usr/bin/enlightenment 3.30 W 20.0% > Device Display backlight 2.06 W 3.0 ms/s 51.5 > Timer tick_sched_timer 662 mW 0.7 ms/s 16.6 > Interrupt PS/2 Touchpad / Keyboard 542 mW 429.3 µs/s 13.6 > Timer hrtimer_wakeup > > Top is showing enlightenment is using 37% CPU: for my W500 thinkpad: > 4208 merlin 20 0 472m 58m 8284 S 36 0.7 12:51.10 > enlightenment > > Starting E didn't cause the CPU usage to go down, nor the battery use. > > Then, with no real change on my side, powertop shows that E went down to > 37 wakeups per second > 278 mW 61.7 ms/s 36.9 Process /usr/bin/enlightenment > even though it's still using 39% of my CPU somehow: > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ > COMMAND 4208 merlin 20 0 395m 93m 23m R 39 1.2 19:09.94 > enlightenment > > Thanks for any suggestions :) > > Marc > -- > "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. > Microsoft is to operating systems .... > .... what McDonalds is to gourmet > cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. > Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. > Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
