gnome-shell cpu usage during installation

[Chris Murphy]

On Jun 18, 2013, at 7:25 AM, Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2013-06-17 at 19:23 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> While anaconda is running an installation, gnome-shell is hogging a
>> whole core on its own, and X is using about 25% of the other core. Is
>> this expected? This is on baremetal, with a nouveau supported GPU:
>> NVIDIA Corporation G84M [GeForce 8600M GT] [10de:0407]. I wouldn't
>> expect gnome-shell to need to fall back to a rendering method that'd
>> be this CPU intensive.
> 
> I assume you mean the live installer by this,

Yes this is occurring with Fedora-Live-Desktop-x86_64-19-TC3-1.iso

>  So it's
> possible that what you're seeing there is anaconda updating the screen
> "often" (more than 60fps, at least), and X and the shell struggling to
> keep up.

With the system installed, dragging e.g. a Firefox window, around the screen approximates the same behavior. gnome-shell is pegged. This doesn't seem right.


> But this is what profilers are for.

OK?


Chris Murphy