I definitely believe that it shouldn't be doing that and it was not always the case. I am certainly willing to accept there is something screwy with my upgrade path, but I did not do anything intentionally to the theme or defendant components. (The only thing that comes to mind that *might* be related is that I renice qpe to -5).
Even if the 20% CPU utilization went away, removing drop shadows so the Software-16 engine can work seems worthwhile to me. angstrom-version - 1:-20081222-r1 e-wm - 0.16.999.043+svnr36882-r14.01 illume - 0.0+svnr36882-r14.06 illume-theme-illume - 0.0+svnr36882-r1.01 On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 6:04 PM, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote: > On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:13:59 +0100 "Bernd (Jesus McCloud) PrĂ¼nster" > <bernd.pruens...@gmail.com> babbled: > >> Dylan Reilly schrieb: >> > FWIW, I have been able to reduce the CPU usage of Enlightenment on my >> > OM testing build device by disabling drop shadows. After recent >> > updates from testing (which should be more or less the 2008.12 image) >> > Enlightenment was constantly grabbing 20% CPU and who knows how much >> > IO. After I obliterated the drop shadow module, >> > (/usr/lib/enlightenment/modules/dropshadow) only 1-2% CPU is being >> > used. >> > >> > Moreover, I remembered some recent post(s) tentatively linking the >> > Software-16 crashes (when using the illume theme) to drop shadows. On >> > a whim I re-enabled that engine and am not seeing any problems. So, >> > now I get a snappier UI to boot. >> > >> > >> WOOHOO!!! you made my day > > dropshadow shouldnt cause 20% cpu - unless some totally bizarre stuff has been > done to the theme: > > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 1261 root 20 0 23892 15m 6312 S 4.3 12.6 18:58.82 python > 1336 root 17 -3 22388 14m 6064 S 0.7 11.4 16:39.74 python > 1338 root 10 -10 22596 11m 7388 S 0.0 9.4 7:43.75 enlightenment > 1381 root 21 1 11020 2860 2080 S 0.0 2.3 0:01.33 enlightenment_f > 1317 root 19 -1 9968 2852 1564 S 0.0 2.3 1:05.34 Xglamo > 1387 root 21 1 4724 1516 1084 S 0.0 1.2 0:01.12 batget > > 0% cpu. it will consume a little cpu while charging (2-3%) (redrawing the > blinking + on the battery). this is out-of-the-box theme with dropshadows on > etc. (illume+e without shr/fdom/asu changes). > > e-wm - 0.16.999.050+svnr37919-r4 - > > > -- > ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- > The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > -- Dylan Maxwell Reilly _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community