[gnome 2.22] gnome-system-monitor on amd64 may slow down the desktop

[Denise H. G.]

"Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7 at cox.net> writes:

> On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:48:24 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke
> <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 05:07 +0800, Denise H. G. wrote:
>>> On 7.0-STABLE/amd64, gnome-system-monitor for gnome 2.22, when launched,
>>> uses `gnash'(!) to render the system resources graphs...
>>
>> Where do you see it using gnash?  The resource graphs are rendered using
>> cairo and GTK+.
>
> Maybe enable glitz option in cairo will helping, but that's complete
> guess. Denise, you can edit in src/load-graph.cpp (646 line) by change
> from:
>
> 	g->frames_per_unit = 5;  // this will be changed but needs initialising
>
> To:
>
> 	g->frames_per_unit = 1;  // this will be changed but needs initialising
>
> It will reducing the CPU from 20% to between 4%-7%, but the graph won't
> be  smooth as before. There has bugzilla about this issue:

thanks. I will check it out.

>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507797
>
> I didn't read all replies in there. It's not FreeBSD specific, btw.

I had thought this was due to my slow xorg driver... 

Thanks.

>
> Cheers,
> Mezz
>
>> Joe

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Denise H. G. <darcsis AT gmail DOT com>