On Die, 2012-09-11 at 15:07 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 11.09.2012, 14:55 +0200 schrieb Michel D?nzer: > > On Die, 2012-09-11 at 14:42 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: > > > > > > using Debian Sid/unstable with the awesome 3.4.13-1 window manager and > > > Evolution 3.4.3-1, htop shows X to constantly use 10 % of the CPU. > > > Closing Evolution the usage goes back to more or less 0 %. > > > > I'm not seeing this. Is there something in your Evolution window(s) that > > is constantly repainting, e.g. a spinner in the status bar, a blinking > > cursor, ... ? > > Now that you are mentioning it, in the bottom there is the message > ?Checking for New Messages? and next to it there is an animation where > something goes around a circle. Canceling that removes X?s CPU usage.
That's a GTK+ spinner widget, which uses RENDER trapezoids, which is a software rendering fallback with EXA. > Should I recommend something to the Evolution folks on how to due such > animations? Or is the only way to avoid animations? I don't think there's anything wrong with the animation per se. However, one issue I've found is that Evolution schedules many actions as glib idle callbacks with priority lower than G_PRIORITY_HIGH_IDLE + 20, which is the priority used by GTK+ for drawing animations. This can result in the animations delaying the completion of the actual work they're representing. -- Earthling Michel D?nzer | http://www.amd.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 190 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/attachments/20120911/fd03a4bc/attachment.pgp>
