I've got most things running the way I want it, the only thing that's not working as it should is Foobar2000 under wine.
The problem is, Foobar2000 under wine is consuming very much cpu time in Debian9.7 Xfce, about 250%CPU in top (in Irix mode) and even higher up to 320%.
Doing the same thing in Linux mint18.3 Xfce, Foobar2000 is using about 50%CPU, watching top (in Irix mode).
I know the cpu usage is ridicules in any case for a music player.
One of the reasons is that I have a visualization plugin that seems to be heavy.
When I disable this plugin, cpu usage drops significantly, but I want to use this and some other plugins anyhow and it does not explain the difference between Mint and Debian.
I do not which to discuss in this topic why I am using Foobar2000 instead of some of the other Linux native media players.
I've been struggling with this problem for some days now, but I can't seem to find the cause of the problem.
This is what I have done so far:
- At first I tried to use the wine version delivered with the default repository, but that didn't work because I had trouble with Gecko not being installed,I tried to install gecko myself, but I failed so I skipped this part and went on with wine4.0, following these instructions:
https://wiki.winehq.org/Debian
WINEARCH=win32 and WINEARCH=win64 gave the same results.
I build the same wine version 4.0 from source code as used in Linux Mint, did not solve it.
I re-installed Debian9.7, net-install and tried:
- only base system, and openbox.
- xfce desktop
I gave Debian10 testing a try, did not solve it.
I even tried using Manjaro, which works fine, same results as in Mint, but I don't wanna use Manjaro for real
I followed these instructions to install my graphics drivers:
https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
I think the drivers work as they supposed to do now, no errors occurred during install.
I have no clue where to start looking, any help appreciated.
My system:
Athlon 4 cores @ 3.7Ghz
8G ram
MSI GeForce GTX 750 Ti
Linux Mint 18.3 Xfce
Linux Debian 9.7 Xfce