EmulationStation Consuming 65% CPU on Idle
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Hello everyone. While testing RetroPie on a Pi Zero W, I'm finding that the EmulationStation process is consistently consuming about 65% of the CPU resources while idle on a stationary menu screen. Is this normal? Any way to fix or get around this?
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@drake999 Did you enable the power saving options ? It considerably reduces the CPU usage when idle.
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@mitu thanks for the suggestion. I was not aware of power saving options. Where do I find them? I'm less concerned about idle CPU usage and more concerned about reducing the load generated by background tasks while running games. I probably should have said that initially, sorry. At the time I was mainly curious as to why that is the case, as on a Pi 3, barely any CPU is used when idle. I'm trying to get 32X emulation playable on my Pi Zero W. It's very close with my overclock, but a bit to slow. It's possible some clever tweaks could make the difference.
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@drake999 said in EmulationStation Consuming 65% CPU on Idle:
Where do I find them?
They should be in the Emulationstation main menu - under
Other Settings. It should be calledPower Saver Mode. My observations are from a Pi3 system - I use the Default option for power saving and have the screensaver set to DIM after a few minutes. -
@mitu OK thanks for the info. I'll take a look at that.
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@drake999 said in EmulationStation Consuming 65% CPU on Idle:
I'm finding that the EmulationStation process is consistently consuming about 65% of the CPU resources while idle on a stationary menu screen.
With or without videos? If the latter, did you enable the OMX player in Other Settings of ES' Main Menu?
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