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Re: [trinity-devel] tdepowersave - continually grinding away 3.6%-6% of CPU -- confirm?

From: "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@...>
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 12:24:39 -0600
On 02/01/2014 12:13 PM, Slávek Banko wrote:
> On Saturday 01 of February 2014 19:04:56 David C. Rankin wrote:
>> Darrell, Slavek, All,
>>
>>   On your R14 install, open a 'top' or 'htop' window and tell me what your
>> 'tdepowersave' use is.
>>
>>   By far -- tdepowersave is the top CPU user on my build continually taking
>> more than any other process. This is not right. It is using 2x-3x more CPU
>> than X or kded and is continually at the top of the list. It never stops.
>>
>>   What do you see?
> 
> Soon I will have completed a patch for tdepowersave (related to bug 1597). 
> Let's wait with further research after this patch.
> 
> Slavek
> 

Ok,

  Is there any suggestion for managing tdepowersave CPU use in the interim? If I
have it running in virtualbox on my laptop, then my palmrest gets fairly warm ;-)

-- 
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.