Re: Refreshed build of SM 2.42.9ESR

Peter Brown <[email protected]> Mon, 28 Aug 2017 13:56:44 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.os2
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Dave

Dave Yeo wrote:
> Peter Brown wrote:
>>
>> Whether attempting to play video or browsing a fairly simple website
>> seems to involve a lot of peaking cpus - even typing this message
>> involves lots of cpu peaks.
>
> I don't see that here, just a steady moderately high CPU load (10-15% on
> both cores).


All 4 cores peaking here.


> You could try playing with layout_frame_rate, which should now be set to
> zero by default.


I'll try some experimentation when time allows.

  Unluckily Mozilla has made some weird decisions about
> compositing and it is even worse for us as we have no access to the
> video drivers vsync signals.
> Were you running the previous 2.49.9?
> Dave


Sorry, gave up on the previous version due to the difficulty of typing 
any text - jerky, had to stop my slow 2 fingered typing to let the 
screen catch up frequently.


Regards

Pete