>>> "it seems this may have something to do with specific cases for the nvidia driver. it does this on my work desktop (uses 30-40%cpu) but at home its 5-8%. both nvidia drivers. both gtx970's, one with 3 screens, one with 2."
Sorry to bring this topic up again, but I am bothered by the fact that my window manager and firefox use 80% of my CPU when they dont do anything. If you have time, can you profile your PC at work or perhaps change the nvidia driver to match the driver version of the home workstation and see if the CPU usage goes down? I am sure other users are affected by the high CPU load too, that's why I want to understand it more. In addition, I plan to build a top-of the line PC for work and just to run 'e' efficiently. But before doing that, I would like to understand the bottle neck if it is software or hardware related.... If the bottle neck is found in software video drivers (intel/radeon/nvidia, all of which I have tried), then let's understand why 'e' does not run efficiently with certain drivers. In the age of today's computing, the technological focus is no longer on speed but rather efficiency.....work per unit second per unit watt....aka output power / input power. I believe it is always good to improve the efficiency ratio... because it will make this world a little greener :-) TP ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
