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Message 26370 - Posted: 14 Sep 2004, 13:39:05 UTC
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In the Windows GUI the pie charts for the harddrive and the work tab are using a bit of cpu ( 2-6%) on my Computer.

The thing is that these are updating even when the client is minimized causing the GUI to use the same amount of CPU as when the window is open.

Also the redraw frequency of the pie charts could be set to 5 seconds or something as Harddrive space don't change that rapidly. On a slow computer I guess this could use quite a lot more than 6% of the CPU.



So in short, don't update graphics when minimized and lower the update frequncy of the pie charts.


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Message 26606 - Posted: 15 Sep 2004, 2:48:53 UTC

On my 166Mhz computer (retired) it used more than 50% of the CPU just to update the graphics. The work tab is pretty bad as well.
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