| Summary: | xscreensaver too cpu intensive - look for replacement. | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | jurek.bajor |
| Component: | lxde-common | Assignee: | Christoph Wickert <cwickert> |
| Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 16 | CC: | cwickert |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2011-11-12 17:51:07 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
So? None of this screensavers is installed or configured by default in LXDE. The reason why we choose xscreensaver is it's functionality and security model. For more info please refer to http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/versus-xlock.html and http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html Feel free to reopen this bug once you come up with an alternative that can compete with xscreensaver. |
Description of problem: Is it necessary to ship a package in which some screen savers are so CPU intensive and causing excessive temperature comtrol ? Also a problem for power consumption. Time to look for a light X screen saver and locker. xscreensaver is too cpu intensive, and also too heavy (MB). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xscreensaver-base i686 1:5.15-3.fc16 @updates 1.3 M xscreensaver-extras i686 1:5.15-3.fc16 @updates 6.5 M xscreensaver-extras-base i686 1:5.15-3.fc16 @updates 182 k How reproducible: Menu - Preferences - Screensaver Steps to Reproduce: 1. as above 2. test screen savers 3. Actual results: Select m6502 from Random Screen Saver Almost immediately the system is very busy (m6502's %CPU around 75) and soon temperature control jumps in. $ top top - 14:50:06 up 1:01, 1 user, load average: 0.39, 0.30, 0.16 Tasks: 104 total, 2 running, 102 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 1.0%us, 1.3%sy, 74.9%ni, 22.4%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.3%si, 0.0%st Mem: 759804k total, 472376k used, 287428k free, 22384k buffers Swap: 1171764k total, 0k used, 1171764k free, 293828k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1512 jb 30 10 7392 4056 1720 R 75.2 0.5 0:47.73 m6502 878 root 20 0 31632 10m 6488 S 1.7 1.4 0:34.86 X 1447 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:00.10 kworker/0:2 1506 jb 20 0 2856 1116 892 R 0.3 0.1 0:00.29 top 1 root 20 0 5456 3328 1948 S 0.0 0.4 0:01.64 systemd 2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd 3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.10 ksoftirqd/0 Also bad examples: XAnalogTV, XLyap, XRaySwarm, Zoom, etc. Expected results: Screen saver easy on system, temperature, and power consumption/management. Additional info: