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From: Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wayland and CPU load
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2024 08:50:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <12509376.O9o76ZdvQC@rogueboard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5814876.DvuYhMxLoT@cube>

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On Thursday 5 September 2024 07:32:21 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Has anyone else seen grossly excessive CPU load since adopting the new
> Wayland way of doing things? /Top/ is showing 1300% going on kwin_wayland
> and the whole of the rest going on plasmashell.

Ouch!  No, this is definitely excessive.  This is what I have here on a 
Wayland Plasma desktop, with gkrellm, kmail, a text editor and a couple of 
terminals running:

  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU  %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND                                       
 4257 michael   -2   0 4812308 226288 156940 S   0.7   0.3   0:06.62 
kwin_wayland                                  
 4640 michael   20   0  193240  30508  24576 S   0.7   0.0   0:02.58 gkrellm           


> I need hardly say this doesn't make a responsive system.

Quite so.  Dare I ask if you're observing this on a system running NVidia 
graphics?

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  reply	other threads:[~2024-09-05  7:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-05  6:32 [gentoo-user] Wayland and CPU load Peter Humphrey
2024-09-05  7:50 ` Michael [this message]
2024-09-05 12:47   ` Peter Humphrey
2024-09-05 14:43     ` Peter Humphrey
2024-09-05 19:00       ` Peter Humphrey
2024-09-05 21:29         ` Michael
2024-09-05 23:21           ` Peter Humphrey
2024-09-06  0:33             ` Peter Humphrey
2024-09-06  9:10               ` Michael
2024-09-06  9:45                 ` Peter Humphrey
2024-09-06 10:41                   ` Michael
2024-09-06 11:30                     ` Peter Humphrey
2024-09-05 22:14         ` Mark Knecht
2024-09-05 15:08 ` Peter Humphrey
2024-09-05 16:27   ` Michael

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