-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 [adding Jonathan to CC just in case]
On Sat, 2019-02-09 at 11:53 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > Package: xfce4-screensaver > Version: 0.1.3-2 > Severity: normal > > I left home for the weekend, just ssh-ed in and I see: > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 2375 root 20 0 823412 223376 169752 R 96.3 2.7 1946:54 Xorg > 24967 kilobyte 20 0 31540 5736 4496 R 34.9 0.1 1:26.92 zoom > 24966 kilobyte 20 0 31144 5188 4320 S 28.2 0.1 1:11.75 zoom > > The screen has been locked for nearly a day, thus it's obviously off (which > I can't verify). For further information, I left this bug report > half-written for while; the screensaver has in the meantime rolled over to > something else that takes just 20% X + 2*7% for screensavers proper, then to > euler3d at 27% X + 2*13%. That's better than nearly two full cores as for > zoom, but the question is: why? I think you should be able to disable the screensavers or to just select “blank screen” instead of letting xfce4-screensaver select a random one. > > Once the monitor gets suspended/slept/powered off, there's completely no > point in drawing anything. On the other hand, a computer with two cores > worth of activity for a prolonged time wastes a significant amount of > electricity, which is bad both for the environment and for users' wallets. > > Thus: could you please stop spawning new "draw something" processes once > the saver has gone past the first (visual) stage? Agreed, but this is likely a bug in mate-screensaver (or whatever the code originally comes from). Jonathan, could you take a look? Honestly I'd be just fine in just disabling all the screensavers and only keep blank screen. Regards, - -- Yves-Alexis -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEE8vi34Qgfo83x35gF3rYcyPpXRFsFAlxunWsACgkQ3rYcyPpX RFt3GQgApKbQikJenbR7HWxDzZxsIG5LvMbcXcIWht5F9H6Oh/rE738OrrRFK6gi DrrajXUfPTw/wCCNDIcP7Jb/kGpjtCK2kmAyNyecgpEwuz1xibWtcgg+0L0wdN79 I/xvt5v9fVHyPG+J4G+IZ4D0LUwy3aByL0MYfXLL8jqH27v6jPhczRB8Va6D59yK bGhpzN7YGINroL7/6p8lBvXjNBVw2Z0sD0Rb71L34320A2GbYkyjJ5sNzFVfyJwk 2v35TOVST4touwHIQQdUIgC3Qckg4IoVN7OF2HtolJLhXXPZASRsXLbdoX0NEVIV I5TdbN5duJJvX8BQ5DBQoQbEW3HP4A== =8kOA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
