[ros-users] rviz in cturtle using high amount of system resources with twinview

[David Feil-Seifer]

I'll let you know, it is an intermittent error, will try when the
problem re-occurs.

-Dave

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Josh Faust <jfaust at willowgarage.com> wrote:
> Do you have compiz enabled?  If so, what happens if you disable it?
>
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:09 PM, David Feil-Seifer
> <david.feilseifer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I am having problems with rviz. When I have a robot model loaded (many
>> difference models such as pr2, p2os, or others), a point cloud (such
>> as from stereo_image_proc), or a costmap displayed, the update rate of
>> rviz goes way down. Also all GUI response time (moving windows,
>> dragging windows, etc) starts lagging quite a bit. Looking at top,
>> rviz is not taking up a lot of CPU, but Xorg goes to 100% as soon as
>> rviz is started. I have noticed that maximizing/unmaximizing the
>> window sometimes helps the problem, but will also frequently crash
>> rviz as well. I have noticed that turning twinview off will fix the
>> problem temporarily, but then will come back after a while. Turning
>> twinview back on will sometimes fix the problem or sometimes crash
>> rviz. These problems do NOT happen in the boxturtle version of rviz. I
>> am running the most recent version of ROS -r10792 and rviz -r31988
>> from SVN on a machine that is a well-updated version of Ubuntu 10.04.
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> my graphics card:
>>
>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G84 [Quadro FX
>> 570] (rev a1)
>>        Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Device 0474
>>        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
>>        Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
>>        Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
>>        Memory at fa000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
>>        I/O ports at dc80 [size=128]
>>        [virtual] Expansion ROM at fde00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
>>        Capabilities: <access denied>
>>        Kernel driver in use: nvidia
>>        Kernel modules: nvidia-current, nvidiafb, nouveau
>>
>>
>> my CPU:
>>
>> processor       : 3
>> vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
>> cpu family      : 6
>> model           : 15
>> model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU    Q6600  @ 2.40GHz
>> stepping        : 11
>> cpu MHz         : 2393.567
>> cache size      : 4096 KB
>> physical id     : 0
>> siblings        : 4
>> core id         : 3
>> cpu cores       : 4
>> apicid          : 3
>> initial apicid  : 3
>> fpu             : yes
>> fpu_exception   : yes
>> cpuid level     : 10
>> wp              : yes
>> flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca
>> cmov
>> pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx
>> lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good aperfmperf pni dtes64
>> monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm tpr_shadow
>> vnmi flexpriority
>> bogomips        : 4787.98
>> clflush size    : 64
>> cache_alignment : 64
>> address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
>> power management:
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