[CentOS-devel] CentOS 7 gome system monitor CPU usage

Tue Nov 11 11:05:19 UTC 2014
Andrew Schott <andrew at schotty.com>

Recently I have run into the bug in GNOME3 that has after a period of
time, created the same result.  I have gone to MATE as a stopgap, and
it works fine.  Here is the RH bugzilla entry, and the centos listing:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812624
https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=7188

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 12:54 AM, Leo Brandewie
<lbrandewie at dslextreme.com> wrote:
> I see. Thanks for the response.
>
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> On 11/10/2014 8:32 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>>>
>>>   loaded the Gnome desktop
>>
>> I think I see part of your problem right there. The Gnome3 desktop is
>> amazing bloatware. If your RAM is not generously allocated for all the
>> debris on a typical Gnome desktop, you'll start swapping  as well as
>> sucking CPU for pointless 3D acceleration, especially in a VM.
>>
>> You also didn't mention which virtualization technology you used. A VM
>> that supports paravirtualization, can be far more efficient than a VM
>> for which a server must do full virtualization.
>>
>>> I'm astounded. I have no way of knowing if the problem is also present in
>>> RHEL 7. I can say it's not at all present in CentOS 6.5. I have a fair
>>> amount of experience with that OS.
>>
>> Compare apples to apples. Try a much lighter window manager and see if
>> you have the same performance issue with something like XFCE. If you'd
>> like to be really retro, you can grab my vtwm building tools at
>> https://github.com/nkadel/vtwm-5.5.x-srpm and use something older,
>> more stable, and much lighterweight than any of those that compiles
>> from the same codebase on either basic OS.
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