On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Niels Mayer <nielsmayer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As a second patch (coming soon), I've rewritten the meters in a more > sensible fashion, drawing a single rectangle to represent the > instantaneous level (2-3 X-primitive draws per meter total and one > blit, versus hundreds of draws and a blit per value change per meter > in the original code). Patch for https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=602903 (see also http://old.nabble.com/FIxed-alsa-tools'-envy24control-missing-peak-level-meters-and-"Reset-Peaks"-ts29144830.html ) (1) http://nielsmayer.com/npm/Screenshot-Efficient-Meters-Envy24Control.png * To see what the new meters look like. (2) http://nielsmayer.com/npm/Efficient-Meters-Envy24Control.tgz * Contains levelmeters.c and x86_64 binary 'envy24control' that should at least work on Fedora 12 and OpenSuse and other 2.6.32-based distros. (3) http://nielsmayer.com/npm/Efficient-Meters-Envy24Control.patch * To apply the patch, grab the most recent stable release ( ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/tools/alsa-tools-1.0.23.tar.bz2 ) or git pull from trunk of the "alsa-tools" project. * After unpacking and assuming you've got the patch in ~/Efficient-Meters-Envy24Control.patch.patch do: >> cd alsa-tools-1.0.23 >> cat ~/Efficient-Meters-Envy24Control.patch | patch -p1 * It should give message "patching file envy24control/levelmeters.c" * Follow the directions to compile alsa-tools. FYI here's what my "top" processes look like when running a test to output individual streams to all 10 PCM output channels -- note X consumes between "1.7%" to "2.0 %" and "envy24control" "0.7%" to "1.0%": 15210 npm 20 0 643m 14m 8964 S 6.6 0.4 0:05.85 gst123 15184 npm 20 0 643m 14m 8984 S 6.3 0.4 0:13.11 gst123 15190 npm 20 0 643m 14m 8980 S 6.0 0.4 0:12.48 gst123 15172 npm 20 0 643m 14m 8968 S 5.6 0.4 0:15.42 gst123 15178 npm 20 0 643m 14m 8984 S 5.6 0.4 0:14.17 gst123 13684 root 20 0 527m 112m 31m S 2.0 2.8 3:26.11 X 13923 npm 20 0 863m 60m 37m S 1.0 1.5 2:49.08 plasma-desktop 14163 npm 20 0 597m 27m 15m S 1.0 0.7 1:08.29 chrome 14155 npm 20 0 1038m 170m 14m S 0.7 4.3 1:00.87 chrome 15226 npm 20 0 192m 9316 6908 S 0.7 0.2 0:00.51 envy24control Here's the envy24control from my first patch, using the original meters that cause many separate XDrawRectangles for each LED-looking segment. The performance difference is quite noticeable as the fans start running louder and the system load climbs upwards as soon as the original envy24control starts running: X consumes 5.7-10% CPU, and envy24control between 2.0% and 2.7%. 15172 npm 20 0 643m 14m 8968 S 6.1 0.4 0:53.83 gst123 15178 npm 20 0 643m 14m 8984 S 6.1 0.4 0:51.48 gst123 15190 npm 20 0 643m 14m 8980 S 6.1 0.4 0:49.60 gst123 15210 npm 20 0 643m 14m 8964 S 6.1 0.4 0:44.01 gst123 13684 root 20 0 527m 112m 31m S 5.7 2.8 3:42.78 X 15184 npm 20 0 643m 14m 8984 S 5.7 0.4 0:51.07 gst123 15398 npm 20 0 192m 9332 6908 S 2.4 0.2 0:02.32 envy24control.f 14163 npm 20 0 597m 27m 15m S 1.0 0.7 1:15.54 chrome 13923 npm 20 0 863m 60m 37m S 0.6 1.5 2:55.04 plasma-desktop Just to show that it's the same performance as the original envy24control from alsa-tools-1.0.22-1.1.fc12.ccrma.x86_64: 15178 npm 20 0 643m 14m 8984 S 6.3 0.4 1:28.72 gst123 15190 npm 20 0 643m 14m 8980 S 6.3 0.4 1:26.65 gst123 15210 npm 20 0 643m 14m 8964 S 6.3 0.4 1:20.59 gst123 15184 npm 20 0 643m 14m 8984 S 6.0 0.4 1:28.21 gst123 13684 root 20 0 527m 112m 31m R 5.6 2.8 4:21.30 X 15172 npm 20 0 643m 14m 8968 S 5.6 0.4 1:31.51 gst123 15455 npm 20 0 192m 8700 6316 S 2.3 0.2 0:01.74 envy24control 14163 npm 20 0 597m 27m 15m S 1.3 0.7 1:23.02 chrome 13923 npm 20 0 863m 60m 37m S 0.7 1.5 3:00.72 plasma-desktop -- Niels http://nielsmayer.com _______________________________________________ music mailing list music@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/music
