Le lundi 28 mai 2007 à 09:26 -0700, ajkessel a écrit : > The photo 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.
It could be beagle which try to index as much files as possible when screensaver is active. You'll have to check. -- Frederic Crozat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mandriva _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
