Hello, I experience the same problem with the CPU (and memory) usage indicator on Xubuntu. I had a look at the code and found a number of efficiency savings that could go into it. For instance, you need not rewrite the bars every quarter second, maybe just if they change by more than, say, a 5-10%. And there are some calculations inside the C code that could be done otherwise in order to improve performance.
I tried to contact the developer, but he never answered back, though. Best regards, Carlos J. Gil Bellosta http://www.datanalytics.com 2011/7/30 Eero Tamminen <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > On lauantai 30 heinäkuu 2011, Jarno Suni wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 2:00 AM, Eero Tamminen <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I've seen several non-technical people to like a CPU usage indicator. >> > Especially on machines that have less RAM or are otherwise slower, it >> > shows that machine is actually doing something as response to user >> > actions, like starting Firefox... >> >> ...CPU Graph takes several percents of CPU in older computers... > > I don't have Xubuntu myself (I've just installed & maintain it for > relatives), so I cannot test now how much exactly each of the CPU > utilization applets takes by default, but at least you can change > their update intervals to something more sensible than their default > interval. > > If I remember correctly, the CPU graph updates take ~1% of CPU > on 1.4Ghz AMD Athlon XP, when the updates happen at 1Hz interval. > > I just don't understand why their max interval is limited to about > 1 sec. On older machine even a bit longer interval would be nice. > > > - Eero > > -- > xubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel > -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
