[Performance Optimization]: High GPU usage when idle (fixed)

[SMTKamikaze]

High GPU usage when idle

Description

High GPU usage even in idle due to "animation = borderangle, 1, 30, liner, once"

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for more details : hyprwm/Hyprland#7711

Plz either replace "animation = borderangle, 1, 30, liner, loop" with "animation = borderangle, 1, 30, liner, once" as it remain active even in game mode and many minimal animation configs.

Thank you!

[inevity]

Two monitor， consume all cpus
one monitor， use 4-6 cpus，but just open one ketty window

Thank you:
change loop to once in ~/.config/hypr/animations/animations-default.conf
Now one monitor ok. two monitr did not test.

[kRHYME7]

animation = borderangle, 1, 30, liner, once

cool, whats the difference with the loop?

[SMTKamikaze]

hyprland documentation says that "loop" requires hyprland to push new frames every seconds which causes high GPU usage especially when there are more than 1 windows one the screen(least of the time).

[kRHYME7]

Cool! how about once?

we are aware of this borderangle being hungry, therefore we added a specific option in HyDE CLI to disable it.

Now what's the difference with disabling borderangle, setting it once or setting it to loop? how significant is it?

I just want to know to better deal with this. Also feel free to open a PR so I can merge it.

[SMTKamikaze]

Setting it "loop" to "once" has significant improvement in GPU usage. in loop if there are 3 windows then my GPU usage was around 30-40 percent even at idle but changing it to once reduced it to 0-5% at idle. increasing the no' of windows cause even more idle GPU usage in "loop", setting it to "once" make it back to 0-5% idle.

disabling boarderangle and setting it "once" do not have big change. once trigger the boarder animation of changing gradient for very short time(2-3sec) for a newly open window. So the Idle GPU usage it again 0-5%.

turning on game mode do not solve the issue.

the only way is to change it from loop to once or commenting it out.

Idle GPU usage in loop:

Idle GPU usage in once:

[kRHYME7]

@SMTKamikaze Very well! Thanks! will you please open a MR?

[SMTKamikaze]

I am newbie and I have no Idea what is MR or PR :(

[kRHYME7]

Oops my bad. let's wait for someone to open a Pull Request (PR)