[PD] Preventing pix_image to eat up all CPU

[Matteo Sisti Sette]

Err,

I already found the workaround: disabling thread:

[thread 0(
  |
[pix_image]

When [pix_image] receives the thread 0 message, it stops consuming all 
that CPU.


On 05/27/2011 10:01 PM, Matteo Sisti Sette wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Has anybody ever used a considerable number of [pix_image] objects in
> the same patch?
>
> If I do so, even if I don't load any image on any of them and even if
> they are all "disconnected" (meaning they are not receiving the
> gemlist), they eat up a lot of CPU. With 64 pix images doing nothing Pd
> is already eating up 75% of my dual core.
>
> I wonder if anybody has run into the same issue, especially on Linux and
> found any workaround.
>
> I'm completely stuck because I need to have a few images pre-loaded and
> at any moment, show one of them (and I can't dynamically load them with
> an "open" message on only one [pix_image], because loading is threaded).
> This shouldn't be cpu-consuming at all, as I'll always make only one
> image visible, but pix_image is consuming CPU merely for existing.
>
> GEM: ver: 0.92.3
> GEM: compiled: May 30 2010
> Ubuntu 10.04
>
>
> Thanks
> m.