On Tue, 6 Dec 2016 15:32:42 +0100 Quelrond <[email protected]> said:
> On 06/12/2016 14:32, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > > 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. :( > > > > Thanks for this clarification, Rasterman. > Is it possible to change the polling interval? What is the default value? > > BTW, inotify-like interface of kqueue exists in FreeBSD ports tree: > http://www.freshports.org/devel/libinotify > It suffers from kqueue limitations, but it should work for icon themes > etc. as the number of files is not too high here... hmm wait. we do have kqueue support in eio. eio_monitor_kevent.c is there. i'm wondering why you're seeing stat's then as that smells of the polling fallback. there isn't a way of altering the poll interval in the polling fallback but the compiled-in fixed interval is 60 seconds. i wonder why then it's statting so many files i ti's not polling. and even then it'll only be every 60 sec.. ? -- ------------- 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
