Comment 3 for bug 784055

On Tue, 17 May 2011, Michael Hofmann wrote:

Thanks for responding very quickly.

> Could you post some system specs for comparison (CPU, graphics card)?

cpu is dual core. from /proc/cpuinfo:
 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8400 @ 2.26GHz

graphics card should be accelerated, and reasonably current, in a Lenovo
T400. From lshw:
 *-display:0
    description: VGA compatible controller
    product: Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics
Cer
    vendor: Intel Corporation
    physical id: 2
    bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
    version: 07
    width: 64 bits
    clock: 33MHz
    capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
    configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
    resources: irq:46 memory:f4400000-f47fffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff ioport:1800(size=8)

>
> But I fear that I can't do much here. Somebody needs to optimize the
> unity app-indicator code I think...
..

I figure thats probably right.

> For comparison, on my system with metacity/gnome-panel, indicator-
> multiload+indicator-applet-complete need about 2% CPU at 100ms update
> interval.
>
> ** Summary changed:
> - compiz CPU usage increases ~300% when running indicator-multiload
> + compiz CPU usage increases to 4% when running indicator-multiload

I used the "300%" rather than "to 4%" as I think it contains more
information. "to 4%" doesn't mean anything as there is no baseline.

There is a dramatic increase in resources here, "to 4%" doesn't really
show that.