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cryptopsii

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Registered: 2014-01-06

Posts: 10

Enlightenment constant cpu usage when idle

Hi,
I just did a new Arch install and decided I would give enlightenment a try.
I like it a lot so far, but I there is one thing that bother me:

The /usr/bin/enlightenment will always use a variable amount sometimes between 10-20% cpu,
sometimes between 7-12% but even with no app open this value doesnt seem to go down.

Switching to tty 1 will actualy drop it to 0% but its back as soon as I'm back to X (obviously).

First thing I tought was that open gl was disabled. But switching from opengl to software has no effect.

glxinfo |grep -i opengl
OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Haswell Mobile
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 10.1.3
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 3.30
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 10.1.3
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL extensions: [snip]

and tried a few 3d games just to be sure

So far ive found no reference of that on the net.

Anyone know if this is normal behavior?

89c51

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Registered: 2012-06-05

Posts: 741

Re: Enlightenment constant cpu usage when idle

There was discussion in the dev ML about problems with intel on Mesa 10.1 but no idea if it's been fixed or what were these problems exactly.

Regards.

\hbar

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Registered: 2014-03-15

Posts: 165

Re: Enlightenment constant cpu usage when idle

When I was running enlightenment I also had around 7-8% background CPU usage. I don't know if it's normal though.

Now I'm on awesome, and still have a background CPU usage, although it's only around 2%.

I would be quite interested to know what's actually going on.