Bug#1001626: enlightenment: Starting gkrellm or qmmp, enlightenment process takes too much cpu cycles

[Ross Vandegrift]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 11:37:24AM +0100, Adrian Immanuel Kiess wrote:
> I can sharpen this in the way that I use the gkrellm instances remotely
> over SSH connections. Also, other GTK+/GNOME3 applications executed
> remotely over SSH and displayed locally on my Enlightenment XOrg window
> manager session take a lot of high CPU% cycles.
> 
> Maybe this helps identify the bottle-neck.
> 
> Sometimes it takes a low CPU% percentage at start right after booting
> into Englightenment, but having eight gkrellm instances (seven remotely
> via SSH) make take Enlightenment one full CPU core after having it
> run for a while. 
> 
> This does not happen when I don't run gkrellm. Enlightenment takes as
> low as 0,7-6% CPU% usage, even after having running Enlightenment for
> two days. Spurring on gkrellm, the same affect happens again.
> 
> Changing the refresh time/rate of gkrellm in the gkrellm preferences
> does not change the effect.

That's strange - changing the refresh rate has a large impact for me.  At 20Hz,
enlightenment uses ~25%; at 1Hz, enlightenment uses ~2%.  Running local vs
remote over ssh doesn't seem to make any difference.

> I hope this can be fixed! If no solution can be found (maybe it has to
> do with some library, I don't know) I will contact 
> https://www.enlightenment.org/contact.

Good luck!

Ross