Xara & CPU usage

[Egg Bramhill]

This matter has been raised before but I wonder if the devs can update us on why inactive Xara still demands a great deal of cpu space?

[Acorn]

This matter has been raised before but I wonder if the devs can update us on why inactive Xara still demands a great deal of cpu space?

Like you Egg, I am running a Intel Core i7 5930K, 32 GBytes and it rarely moves off 0% (max 0.3%, once a minute).

My laptop is another case and it seems to be endless churn.

The other quibble I have is on the laptop, my Bullguard AV rescans on every start-up and I cannot get it to be sensible.

Acorn

[mwenz]

I only have XDP installed on my Toshiba laptop. It too cycles up/down every few seconds. XDP here can go from 0% to as high as 4% when I am not actually doing something inside the application, even when it doesn't have focus. Most cycles according to Task Manager are at or below 1.4%.

[Egg Bramhill]

Thanks for the replies .

Mine is much worse. Just having Xara open, but no documents loaded and taking no action constantly uses 10% of my cpu usage.
Loading further documents but again not working on them ups the cpu usage to over 20%.

I just fail to understand why Xara is accessing my cpu during these periods of total inactivity ???

Video attached. No Audio. Having big issues with my sound card (Hooray came the response)

[Acorn]

Egg, Xara must be using your CPU time to manufacture Bitcoins as a source of revenue.

[PhilM]

Hi guys,

We don't completely understand this problem either! Some people see it, some don't. When we debug it we get so far and then the problem spontaneously goes away.

We have made some changes which should improve things and they will be in the next release or the one after (I'm not sure where the fix was in the release cycle).

Egg: If you want you could try this sequence until CPU usage returns to normal:
* Close Galleries one by one
* Close the entire gallery system by unchecking "Utilities | Galleries | Fly-out bar" (silly menu item name)
* With all galleries closed and the gallery system disabled as described above, shutdown and restart the program.

If CPU usage is normal after any point in that sequence try re-enabling the galleries and re-opening them one by one. You may find CPU usage is still normal when you've got them all open again!

Phil