On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 09:37:30AM +0200, Uwe Voelker wrote: > when using wmii-3 I have a much higher load compared to ion3. > > Even without further activity the load (and average) is around 0.20 > whereas ion3 has 0.0x. This is on a Debian system with moderate hardware > (Athlon XP 2700+, 1 GB). > > Do others experience the same or is my setup broken? > What could cause this higher load?
There are several reasons, the most important one is, that wmii does much more I/O operations on the wmii socket beside X11 communication. You can reduce the load through killing the status script (without status I have 0.06). Or you can decrease the status scripts refresh interval. If you perform interactions (selecting another client), this produces some load as well, because a wmiir process is forked which writes some commands to the specific ctl file and exits (though this load is marginal in my eyes). If you link wmiir statically, you can decrease the load as well and gain noticable speedups in Linux and BSD systems. Other reasons might be, that wmii has more aggressive timeouts in some loops which contain some usleep statements, thus those loops are more busy, but I'm not sure this really causes trouble. Regards, -- Anselm R. Garbe ><>< www.ebrag.de ><>< GPG key: 0D73F361 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wmii
