On Tuesday 03 March 2015 04:59:48 Kamil Paral wrote:

> Alexander, try running the installation with this boot option:

>

> inst.updates=https://kparal.fedorapeople.org/tmp/no-spinner.img

>

> It should disable spinner animation. Then compare the CPU usage. I still haven't gotten to reporting it as a bug, but it's true that the spinner seems to be a *gigantic* performance hog, making all our installations take much longer, especially in VMs.

Just tried it, and it works.

The spinner is not spinning :D and the CPUs are quiet!

Abis.