I just noticed something "interesting". I don't know if it's strictly
gnumeric under ICEWM, or if it's more generic. Open several gnumeric
spreadsheets. Do not minimize, but open one over top of the other. Run
"top" in an xterm in that same workspace...
==============================================================================
top - 00:19:02 up 1:53, 11 users, load average: 2.45, 1.52, 0.85
Tasks: 138 total, 5 running, 133 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 89.0 us, 2.3 sy, 0.0 ni, 8.7 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st
MiB Mem : 3027.5 total, 1799.7 free, 616.7 used, 611.1 buff/cache
MiB Swap: 8971.0 total, 8971.0 free, 0.0 used. 2090.4 avail Mem
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
2832 waltdnes 20 0 277520 177068 40224 S 27.9 5.7 14:43.80 gnumeric
3023 waltdnes 20 0 275568 177184 38972 R 24.6 5.7 3:56.60 gnumeric
2857 waltdnes 20 0 142636 99552 25156 R 21.9 3.2 10:17.00 gnumeric
3067 waltdnes 20 0 179712 83760 37612 R 17.6 2.7 2:41.60 gnumeric
2997 waltdnes 20 0 85600 42292 24940 S 16.6 1.4 2:59.22 gnumeric
3009 waltdnes 20 0 73508 39312 24936 S 16.6 1.3 2:45.92 gnumeric
3001 waltdnes 20 0 82096 38696 24940 S 16.3 1.2 2:53.78 gnumeric
3005 waltdnes 20 0 81976 38392 24628 S 16.3 1.2 2:48.61 gnumeric
2879 waltdnes 20 0 92976 45972 26060 S 12.6 1.5 5:23.20 gnumeric
2660 root 20 0 323680 95236 82776 S 12.3 3.1 3:26.55 X
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...but switch over to another workspace, and cpu usage plummets...
==============================================================================
top - 00:23:27 up 1:57, 11 users, load average: 0.11, 0.84, 0.75
Tasks: 138 total, 1 running, 137 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 0.2 us, 0.0 sy, 0.0 ni, 99.8 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st
MiB Mem : 3027.5 total, 1920.0 free, 616.4 used, 491.1 buff/cache
MiB Swap: 8971.0 total, 8971.0 free, 0.0 used. 2210.8 avail Mem
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1 root 20 0 2392 1488 1408 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.76 init
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
4 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/0+
6 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 mm_percpu+
7 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 ksoftirqd+
8 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.55 rcu_sched
9 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rcu_bh
10 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration+
11 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 cpuhp/0
==============================================================================
Actually, minimizing all the spreadsheets and remaining in the same
workspace similarly reduces cpu usage. Why would gnumeric spreadsheets be
using cpu just sitting there, visible or behind another program?
--
Walter Dnes <[email protected]>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
