Hey! On 5/29/07, Adam Rosi-Kessel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The image slideshow screensaver in gnome-screensaver puts such a load on > my laptop's CPU that the fan runs constantly and tasks such as music > playing with totem become very choppy. Although it's an older laptop, I > would hope it wouldn't be viewed as totally obsolete: it's a Pentium III > 700 MHz with 512M RAM. > > The only way I can get music to play smoothly while the screensaver is > on is to renice -1 the music task and +20 the screensaver task. > > Is there some reason the photo slideshow is so CPU intensive? At first I > thought it was because it was resizing the images to fit the screen, but > after converting all the images in my image directory to 1024x768 (the > LCD resolution), the result is identical. > > Can anyone suggest a workaround for this? It doesn't seem like too much > to ask for to be able to play normal bitrate MP3s and have the > screensaver on at the same time. > > I'm using Debian Etch. Have you checked if there's no other task running while the screensaver is? I say this because maybe some app you are running checks for idle time and starts some process.
Also I couldn't find the Image slideshow screensaver on my gnome-screensaver preferences, maybe you refer to f-spot's one? If that's the case I just tested my f-spot screensaver but my processor stayed at it's lowest speed (600 Mhz). Since 600 is almost 100% of your CPU, maybe we can suspect that f-spot could be doing something nasty that requires some cpu?. Please double-check the first thing I mention (other background processes). Good luck!, Diego _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
