Bug 316736

Summary: rekonq seems to be power hungry
Product: [Unmaintained] rekonq Reporter: Ritesh Raj Sarraf <kde-bugs>
Component: generalAssignee: Andrea Diamantini <adjam7>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 2.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Debian unstable   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
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Description Ritesh Raj Sarraf 2013-03-14 20:16:49 UTC
Summary: 502.0 wakeups/second,  0.0 GPU ops/second, 0.0 VFS ops/sec and 17.2% CPU use

                Usage       Events/s    Category       Description
             2812 rpm                   Device         Laptop fan
             33.3%                      Device         Display backlight
             91.4 ms/s     131.9        Process        /usr/bin/rekonq
             33.3%                      Device         Display backlight
             20.8 ms/s      35.2        Process        /usr/bin/plasma-desktop
             17.2 ms/s      50.8        Process        kwin -session 101261418fe3000136103713100000053880000_1363207811_546297
             14.8 ms/s      69.1        Process        /usr/bin/X :0 vt7 -br -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-DrOVTa
              6.8 ms/s      55.0        Process        /usr/bin/icedove
              2.3 ms/s       1.7        Process        /usr/bin/knemo
              2.2 ms/s       4.7        Process        /usr/bin/python -O /usr/share/wicd/daemon/wicd-daemon.py


THis is just an idle snippet when rekonq has a total of 10 tabs open. All tabs have their page loaded. So, there's no live activity going on. Maybe the gmail tabs might have some activity in the background.


I was surprised to see IceDove (ThunderBird) to be using so less power. My IceDove setup is pretty heavyweight with 2 IMAP a/c (1 IMAP + 1 D-IMAP) + RSS Feed + Leafnode NNTP.

Perhaps there's room for improvement in the power consumption for rekonq.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run rekonq while on battery.
Actual Results:  
Keeps the cpu awake

Expected Results:  
should be consuming lesser power.