[vtkusers] VTK 5.6 on OS X 10.6 with Python and X11

[David Gobbi]

If you are using the stock X11, you should replace it with xquartz
2.5.x if you can.  I've found that the stock X11 for OS X 10.6 will
often start eating CPU for no apparent reason.

  David


On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Frava <fravadona at gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh yeah you're too right !!! The main performance issue was due to the kind
> of the mouse plugged on the workstation(s). The Logitech MX-Revolution
> M-RBQ124 has a third button that eat all a CPU core when using it with X11
> (and Python VTK). I think there could be another performance problem because
> my test is running a little slow in this kind of MacPro, so I'll try Shark
> as you advised me ;)
>
> Thank you for the help,
> Rafael.
>
>
> 2010/7/26 Sean McBride <sean at rogue-research.com>
>>
>> On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:27:05 +0200, Frava said:
>>
>> >My software works correctly on all GeForce workstations, but on Quadro
>> >workstations it has a very slow execution when doing some graphical
>> >movement... It's like it doesn't use the GPU acceleration (100% of one
>> > CPU
>> >core compared to 10% on other workstations).
>> >
>> >Could it be a hardware optimisation problem ?
>>
>> It could be lots of things.  You could measure what the CPU is doing by
>> using Instruments or Shark.
>>
>> --
>> ____________________________________________________________
>> Sean McBride, B. Eng                 sean at rogue-research.com
>> Rogue Research                        www.rogue-research.com
>> Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada
>>
>>
>
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