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From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to manage load on the GPU?
Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 07:44:12
Message-Id: 2557113.mvXUDI8C0e@eve
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How to manage load on the GPU? by tuxic@posteo.de
1 On Monday, May 18, 2020 8:22:52 PM CEST tuxic@××××××.de wrote:
2 > On 05/18 09:58, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote:
3 > > On 2020-05-18 09:40, tastytea wrote:
4 > > > Another solution is to modify the priority yourself, with `renice
5 > > > --priority 15 $(pidof blender)` for example. The priority can be from
6 > > > -20 (very high priority) to 19 (very low priority).
7 > >
8 > > According to the man page for renice, there is a --gpu flag that can be
9 > > used (today I learned) that the OP may want to try as well.
10 >
11 > If it is a load/performance problem, why is only
12 > firefox/internet-video affected?
13
14 firefox might be using GPU-offloading for the video playback (decoder in GPU)
15 where MPV might not use the GPU for decoding and is only CPU-bound.
16
17 --
18 Joost

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