On Wed, 2015-03-04 at 08:04 +0100, drago01 wrote: > On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 2:40 AM, Adam Williamson < > adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 2015-03-03 at 17:00 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > 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. > > That's not really a bug. There is a xsettings key > "Gtk/EnableAnimations" that gets disabled if the system is using > software rendering (or if it is a remote system) to improve > performance. > There is no "full gnome" in the installer environment so nothing > disables the key but in the user session ... yeah, mclasen said the same. still, it's a problem that spinners are so CPU heavy. it's maybe not noticeable in a typical install, but on an openQA setup we have 4-8 installs running simultaneously on a single host, and the combination causes major load. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
