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High CPU Load Using Linux Mint 18.1

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bob:

--- Quote from: mwillems on April 01, 2017, 06:41:15 am ---Disable the spectrum analyzer in the playing now bar; for some reason it uses a huge amount of CPU on Linux.

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It is disabled on arm
Really only an issue with very slow machines.

mwillems:

--- Quote from: bob on April 01, 2017, 04:45:30 pm ---It is disabled on arm
Really only an issue with very slow machines.

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It can also be a serious issue on laptops or anywhere that power usage matters.  I can see anywhere from 20% to 40% CPU utilization (of one core) with it enabled on a U SKU Haswell i5, which doesn't affect playback, but eats up battery like nobody's business. It also seems to create some issues with video playback on mid-tier machines.  It's easy enough to disable it, but it might be worth turning it off by default Linux-wide as it can create a sub-optimal user experience on other than modern desktop CPUs.

I feel like for every person who comes here to troubleshoot a mystery 20%-30% CPU usage, another person will notice the usage and just assume the program is "bloated" and pass it by.  Which is a shame because (generally) MC is the most resource efficient database-driven media player I've ever seen. 

Just my 2 cents  ;D

bob:

--- Quote from: mwillems on April 01, 2017, 06:05:37 pm ---It can also be a serious issue on laptops or anywhere that power usage matters.  I can see anywhere from 20% to 40% CPU utilization (of one core) with it enabled on a U SKU Haswell i5, which doesn't affect playback, but eats up battery like nobody's business. It also seems to create some issues with video playback on mid-tier machines.  It's easy enough to disable it, but it might be worth turning it off by default Linux-wide as it can create a sub-optimal user experience on other than modern desktop CPUs.

I feel like for every person who comes here to troubleshoot a mystery 20%-30% CPU usage, another person will notice the usage and just assume the program is "bloated" and pass it by.  Which is a shame because (generally) MC is the most resource efficient database-driven media player I've ever seen. 

Just my 2 cents  ;D

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Makes sense and easy enough to do.

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