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moljac024

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

Posts: 2,676

Viewing images is painfully slow and uses more than 50-60% CPU

Viewing images is painfully slow in any image viewing program and it can use up from 50% to 70% of CPU.
It EATS it alive, damn it!

I have an intel gma 950 and am using the latest kernel, xorg and intel drivers from the repos, is intel still so crippled ?

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heleos

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From: Maine, USA

Registered: 2007-04-24

Posts: 678

Re: Viewing images is painfully slow and uses more than 50-60% CPU

Maybe a problem with the image viewer?

Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

Posts: 2,549

Re: Viewing images is painfully slow and uses more than 50-60% CPU

How about framebuffer image viewing with fbida? Narrow down the problem, try different video drivers (vesa), perhaps a different WM, etc.

moljac024

Member

From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

Posts: 2,676

Re: Viewing images is painfully slow and uses more than 50-60% CPU

I've tried gThumb, GQView, Mirage, Eye of Gnome and feh.
Feh is the only one different, it doesn't eat the CPU that much but it does get around 30%

The images I'm viewing are not small but they aren't too big either, most of them are the same size as my screen and are being resized to fit in a smaller window...should this eat so much processing cycles ?

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The day Microsoft makes a product that doesn't suck, is the day they make a vacuum cleaner.
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But if they tell you that I've lost my mind, maybe it's not gone just a little hard to find...