gnome-shell cpu usage during installation

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 20:47 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Jun 19, 2013, at 8:44 PM, John Reiser <jreiser at bitwagon.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 06/19/2013 06:04 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> > 
> >> Hmm, neither the Fedora 18 or 19 Xorg.0.logs contain 'software renderer' or 'llvmpipe'.
> >> 
> >> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3253801/F18_Xorg.0.log
> >> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3253801/F19_Xorg.0.log
> >> 
> >> For 'glxinfo' on both F18 and 19 live media, I get Error: unable to open display.
> > 
> > Running Fedora-Live-Desktop-i686-19-TC3-1.iso with (lspci -nn)
> >  05:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3] [10de:10c3] (rev a2)
> > then I see 98% or more idle on a 2.0GHz Athlon 64.  My Xorg.0.log is
> >  http://ur1.ca/ednn9 -> http://paste.fedoraproject.org/19780/69567113
> > From a Terminal (gnome-terminal):
> >  $ glxinfo  |  grep renderer
> >  OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on NVA8
> 
> From your Xorg log, I'm not seeing why glxinfo works for you but
> doesn't work for me. But for that matter I don't see why gnome-shell
> is using so much more CPU with F19 than F18. It doesn't seem to be
> nouveau related, or at least Xorg isn't revealing what the issue is.

It's not a general issue, I don't think. Confirming John's report, on my
desktop (9600 GT), CPU usage of Shell when I'm not touching the keyboard
is 0.7%, and it never goes above 3% in light desktop use.
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