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Re: zim 5.9 and CPU load on win7

 

OK, thanks for confirming it is reproducible - please open a bug
report for this.

Regards,

Jaap

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Mariano Draghi <mdraghi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Interesting finding.
>
> I can reproduce what you're describing, but for me, even when
> launching the external editor on a regular page, the CPU usage won't
> go down to normal until I close Zim. From your report I understand
> that when you launch the editor from the "Insert plugin" dialog the
> CPU usage hangs until you close Zim, but when launching it from a
> regular page, the CPU gets back no normal once you close the editor,
> right?
>
> Well... in my case, the only way to go back to the normal CPU usage is
> to close Zim, on both cases.
>
> Tested on a Windows 7 Enterprise 64 bits SP1, up to date, using the
> regular, "Desktop" Zim 0.59 build from here:
> http://www.glump.net/software/zim-windows
>
> Svenn, are you using that Zim build also?
>
> Jaap, maybe you're testing on development/source code build, and
> that's why you can't reproduce the issue?
>
> I use Windows 7 regularly at my job, so if anyone needs further
> testing, just propose it, and I'll try to make the time. But without
> further instructions I really don't know how to debug this in more
> detail.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Mariano
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Svenn Are Bjerkem
> <svenn.bjerkem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> A short update on zim 0.59 on win7 and CPU load.
>>
>> I just happened to fire up the external editor in the 'insert symbol' plugin
>> I noted that the fan started running almost immediately.
>> Inspecting the CPU load showed that zim.exe was using 13% of the CPU
>> When I closed the external editor and the dialogs, the CPU load was still
>> 13% until i finally closed zim.
>> I then tried to use the external editor on a regular page.
>> The load increased again.
>> When closing the external editor the load decreased and the fan went back to
>> silent.
>> I then did the insert symbol, edit, thing again and load increased.
>> The load did not decrease when closing the external editor.
>>
>> I have been using zim every day since my previous report without noting that
>> the fan speed increased.
>> I did not use the external editor during this period until I clicked the
>> wrong button in insert symbol dialog today.
>>
>> Anybody cares to try to reproduce?
>>
>> --
>> Svenn
>>
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