On Tue, 6 Dec 2016 14:17:51 +0100 Nik <[email protected]> said: > Hello folks! > > I'm using Enlightenment as my preferred DE again since recent update > which made it more usable > and stable than before on FreeBSD.However, I observed that the two > efreetd processes consume > a "huge" amount of CPU resources. Just by looking at "top" I would say > that the CPU load by each > of theses processes amounts to 50% in average on my notebook. > > Tracing these processes shows that they are calling "stat" on a bunch of > files in /usr/local/share/{icons,applications,pixmaps,...} > and ~/.local/{icons,applications,...} over and over again. > > Here is a sample output of "truss": > > .... > stat("/usr/local/share/icons/Faenza-Dark/status/64/gtk-dialog-warning.png",{ > mode=-r--r--r-- ,inode=214359,size=4260,blksize=4608 }) = 0 (0x0) > stat("/usr/local/share/icons/Faenza-Dark/status/64/info.png",{ > mode=-r--r--r-- ,inode=214405,size=4486,blksize=4608 }) = 0 (0x0) > stat("/usr/local/share/icons/Faenza-Dark/status/64/network-error.png",{ > mode=-r--r--r-- ,inode=214380,size=2289,blksize=4096 }) = 0 (0x0) > stat("/usr/local/share/icons/Faenza-Dark/status/64/network-idle.png",{ > mode=-r--r--r-- ,inode=214376,size=1516,blksize=4096 }) = 0 (0x0) > stat("/usr/local/share/icons/Faenza-Dark/status/64/network-offline.png",{ > mode=-r--r--r-- ,inode=214484,size=1495,blksize=4096 }) = 0 (0x0) > stat("/usr/local/share/icons/Faenza-Dark/status/64/network-receive.png",{ > mode=-r--r--r-- ,inode=214337,size=2012,blksize=4096 }) = 0 (0x0) > stat > ("/usr/local/share/icons/Faenza-Dark/status/64/network-transmit-receive.png", > { mode=-r--r--r-- ,inode=214452,size=2420,blksize=4096 }) = 0 ... > > I'm running FreeBSD current with ZFS and Enlightenment version 021.3. > > Is it the "expected" behavior of efreetd? > If not, how can it be fixed? Any idea? > > Any constructive feedback is very much appreciated!
hmmm. i sduspect this is the xdg icon/desktop file standards handling... and efreet is monitoring all files in the icon themes and desktop directories that it needs ... and is monitoring for changes. in linux it uses inotify to do this and the kernel messages userspace when a file event happens... on bsd we have to fall back to polling. and to adapt to changes we have to do this... this is how the standard is set up. what gnome did is force you to run a specific update tool to rebuild their cache files every time something changes. since we are not a dominant De we have to resort to checking for ourselves and watching for updates. :( -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based developer platforms. With one year of Intel Parallel Studio XE. Training and support from Colfax. Order your platform today.http://sdm.link/xeonphi _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
