On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 10:48:19PM +0900, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> > I'm just about ready to downgrade back to 0.18.6, I can't have a WM that
> > sucks so much CPU and battery.
> >
> > Any idea what could be causing this and how to get around it?
>
> could be many things. what else is waking up? didn't you just have drm vsync
> issues? could possibly still be happening. here is what i see:
Damn, that's low.
More output from my (big) laptop:
The battery reports a discharge rate of 24.4 W
The estimated remaining time is 3 hours, 19 minutes
Summary: 1614.5 wakeups/second, 61.1 GPU ops/seconds, 0.0 VFS ops/sec and
53.0% CPU use
Power est. Usage Events/s Category Description
7.42 W 100.0% Device Display backlight
5.50 W 25.8 ms/s 413.7 Process /usr/bin/enlightenment
4.25 W 9.2 ms/s 307.0 Timer tick_sched_timer
3.10 W 11.7 ms/s 224.0 Timer hrtimer_wakeup
2.01 W 26.4 pkts/s Device Network interface: wlan0
(iwlwifi)
1.91 W 100.0% Device USB device:
usb-device-0765-5010
But big laptop or not (4K screen, IGP), 413.7 is the most wakeups of anything
on my system.
Well, how about this:
The very next morning, I changed absolutely nothing, and when coming
back from sleep I'm now seeing:
1.22 W 13.8 ms/s 133.0 Process /usr/bin/enlightenment
272 mW 11.4 ms/s 30.6 Process /usr/bin/enlightenment
239 mW 6.1 ms/s 27.3 Process /usr/bin/enlightenment
Looks like whatever I hit, it fixed/gone for now.
Or is it? While typing this Email bit, it went back up to:
2.15 W 27.4 ms/s 308.6 Process /usr/bin/enlightenment
2.50 W 20.1 ms/s 346.2 Process /usr/bin/enlightenment
2.49 W 36.7 ms/s 325.2 Process /usr/bin/enlightenment
What could be causing so much variance?
Oh my, it seems that running xmms2 (0.8+dfsg-4) causes the music title
to scroll, and that's enough to cause e21 to wake up a *lot*
killall -STOP xmms fixed it it seems:
410 mW 9.2 ms/s 60.1 Process /usr/bin/enlightenment
359 mW 7.3 ms/s 55.1 Process /usr/bin/enlightenment
> so basically it's fine. there is some polling of cpu freq and
> temperature, some battery notifications.... but really its quick
> wake and sleep as any render will invariably involve deferring the
> rendering for the next vsync. stracing shows e asleep for most of a
> second and eeze is forcing a poll every second on the temperature
> sensor. i unload temperature module and e will stay asleep for 2-3
> or 4 secs at a time then wakeup to a battery/power supply event and
> go check battery status. ymmv based on your acpi dsdt and how often
> battery acpi events happen, but the wakeups you see above are really
> only like 1 or 2 per sec. i think it's counting a blocking syscall
> like a read() of a /sysfs node or a write+read from pipe (vsync event
> from vsync thread to mainloop), actually strace e with timestamps and
> see. it may be counting selects that in the loop run "poll to see if
> events came in while we were reading them" or the thread selects etc.
> so take that number of wakeups with a grain of salt.
Removing the battery widget did not help.
> FYI i had my GPD pocket 7 (my mini 7" baytrail laptop) run for 22hrs without
> suspending (screen on lowest brightness level, wifi connected)... e of course
> running. when e is animating expect a lot of wakeups - at least 2-3 maybe 4x
> the actual framerate due to the above (the wake it's measured). another
> sample of battery life: galaxy book 12, 50% brightness with e just idling:
I'm very jaleous now :)
> So... actually look into what is waking things up. fast polling times for
> gadgets like temp, cpufreq etc. will use more power. temperature if using
> udev (eeze) can wake up more often.
>
> if you have terminals with blinking cursors... that's not going to help
> much... disable blinking. :)
I have none of this.
Thanks for your reply.
Marc
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