On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Cedric BAIL <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 3:49 PM, P Purkayastha <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>> On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 14:02:52 +0800 P Purkayastha <[email protected]> said:
>>>> I have seen e get to high cpu when the spinning wheel starts, especially
>>>> affects e19 even if the wheel is spinning in a different desktop than the
>>>> currently visible one.
>>>
>>> even if not visible - it's waking up anbd changing object state - likely
>>> figuring out it's a rendering NOOP and then doing nothing after a canvas 
>>> object
>>> pass.
>>>
>>
>> I think you should try out e19 on drivers that do not support the
>> buffer egl extension. It not only takes more CPU when there is a
>> single tiny rotating wheel on the desktop, the whole desktop stutters
>> when changing desks. *Everything* is slower and choppy - desktop
>> transitions, window movement, opening new windows, etc. My laptop is
>> just over a year old (dell xps 13) that has the intel graphics and
>> core i7 cpu just from the generation just preceding haswell. It is not
>> as powerful as nvidia, but it should have plenty of processing power
>> to run e19 without stuttering. The screen on the laptop is of
>> 1920x1080 resolution (if it matters to e19). I have never seen e17
>> produce this kind of choppy desktop.
>
> I am wondering if there is not something else going on with your
> hardware. I have a 3 years old i7 with intel GPU and a 2 years old one
> also, both of them are running both GL and software backend pretty
> smoothly and battery usage was actually lower than other compositor
> (especially in software). I must say I haven't done any benchmark
> recently as I didn't felt any behavior change.  So maybe there is
> something else going on with your setup. Did you try to get a
> valgrind, oprofile or perf trace to see what's going on ?
> --
> Cedric BAIL


Haven't tried valgrind or other things. My system packages are all
stable Gentoo packages (gcc-4.7.3, kernel-3.12.21, X-1.15.0, etc).
Only things that are not stable are a few end user packages like
firefox, chrome, libreoffice, e19, etc.

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