On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 12:14:21 -0500 Toan Pham <tpham3...@gmail.com> said:
> >>> "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 why don't you use perf and find out? get profiling info. to some extent it will be related to the fact that all geometry has to go through evas (that includes all the little details in the shelf etc.) every update involves a render. obviously firefox is doing something, not nothing. if e is consuming cpu - then it too is doing something. likely rendering - and likely because firefox is rendering too. if a client updates, then the compositor has to update too. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
