Bad screensaver coding? Blank uses 17% CPU...

michaelsanford

michaelsanford

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I made a screensaver which is essentially an empty project, so that my screen will go blank and pass-word protected when i'm away from my box.

For some reason however, this happens:
Code: 
PID COMMAND      %CPU   TIME   #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT  RSHRD  RSIZE  VSIZE
  2003 ScreenSave  15.9%  0:19.26   2    83    93  1.24M  10.3M  6.47M  86.9M
Why does an empty project use 15% - 19% CPU? What can I do to change this?
 
Maybe I'm dense here. It's a screen saver, are you saying that 15% processor is in use by the screensaver when the screensaver is not in use? How about just using the basic black screensaver that's built in to the system? (But maybe I downloaded that a long time ago, unknown where I got it.)
 
No, it uses the CPU when the screen saver is IN USE. I checked it when I was logged in remotely and my ss was activated.

I'm not so much wondering about how to use less CPU with a screen saver, but wondering why a project builder project that does nothing would use 15% of the CPU steadily.

PS I don't know if I have Basic Black, but I have seen a few called that on Version Tracker so I'm not sure it's built-in, but I'm away from my box for 3 weeks so....
 
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