On 16/11/16 22:41, Thomas Esposito via shifter-users wrote: > My Xpra-Launcher.exe process is ALWAYS using from 5% to 10% of my CPU > capacity, even when my X applications are TOTALLY idle (i.e. windows are > out of focus and/or no redrawing from X clients). My guess is that sound is enabled, sound forwarding uses a stream and will consume network and CPU even when no sound is being played.
> This is a HUGE increase in CPU usage (and heat generation) on my laptop > relative to when I'm just doing simple browsing and email. For example, if > i'm just browsing and reading/writing email, my total CPU usage stays under > 1% to 2% and the laptop stays cool with the fan off. If I add the Xpra > client to this, even though I'm not interacting with the X application > windows and they are not redrawing, my laptop starts getting hot and the > fan turns on. Note this is only with a single X application window running. Without sound, there should not be any network or CPU usage unless the application's window is refreshing. (bar ping packets every few seconds, but those are tiny) > In comparison, the TigerVNC viewer and x2go CPU usage is effectively 0% if > the windows are not updating. TigerVNC does not do sound, or printing, and many other things! Cheers Antoine _______________________________________________ shifter-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.devloop.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/shifter-users
