On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 05:12:13PM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: > On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 13:10 -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote: > > > Running 'LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 gnome-shell --replace', as proposed by > > drago01, indeed starts an intended mode gnome session, both before and > > after installing these scratch packages, but results are spectacularly > > useless. 'gnome-shells' eats whatever CPU it can get so one can look at > > results but no hope of doing anything useful. > > CPU usage is going to be higher. That's what "software rendering" > means. I've not found it onerous on an early c2d, but again, I really > need to know what kind of CPU is being complained about. This particular one is a 64-bit (albeit quite old) processor: vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 5 model name : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 142 stepping : 1 cpu MHz : 1600.062 cache size : 1024 KB on a board with 2GB of a physical memory. I know some machines around, and doing useful job, where this is a quite powerhouse in a comparison. When forced with LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 gnome shell was taking all the time between 94% and 96% of CPU and a response latency for a keystroke or a mouse movement was in a order of few seconds. My guess is that more of CPU would be grabbed if only it would be available. At the first moment I thought that the whole thing just locked up and only after some delay I realized that I was mistaken. I have no idea how much this CPU usage would have to be reduced before this setup would pass a "laugh test" but probably 10% for gnome-shell would be way too much. Michal -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
