On Tue, 2015-03-03 at 04:59 -0500, Kamil Paral wrote:
> > On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 22:46 +0000, Alexander Bisogianis wrote:
> > > > I'm not seeing anything like that on my F22 desktop.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I mean while installing F22, all four CPUs on the KVM host
> > > (F21) are constantly at 100% usage.
> > >
> > > Running top in TTY2, while F22 is installing, I see:
> > >
> > > Xorg using constantly CPU 60%-70%
> > > 2 anaconda processes using constantly CPU 60%-70%
> > >
> > > I can understand anaconda, but Xorg?
> >
> > IIRC there's a spinner or something similar visible during
> > install; it could well be caused by that. I even think I caught
> > some discussion about a patch to disable it during automated
> > test runs or something in #anaconda the other day...
>
> 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.
Now I come to notice it, GTKSpinners don't seem to spin at all in
TC7 and TC8. They do spin on my desktop. Not sure if there's a
package difference or it's a KVM vs. real hardware thing, but
they're broken with at least both 'vga' and 'qxl' in a KVM. Just
burning a USB stick to see if it's the same on bare metal. Probably
GTK+ 3.15.9 is involved.
Huh, it's odder than that - GtkSpinners apparently don't spin in GNOME
on a KVM, but they *do* spin in the installer environment.
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