[OM 2008.12] Enlightenment Drop Shadow Performance
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)
raster at rasterman.com
Mon Dec 22 00:04:03 CET 2008
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:13:59 +0100 "Bernd (Jesus McCloud) Prünster"
<bernd.pruenster at 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 -
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